By the fame Author, 



DRAMAS FROM THE SPANISH OF CALDERON. 
2 Vols. London : C. Dolman. 

*^* Thefe Volumes contain unabridged Tranflations of the following fix celebrated Dramas : — 
The Purgatory of St, Patrick, The Conjiant Prince^ The Scarf and the Floiver^ The Phyfician of his oiun 
Honour, The Secret in Words, and To Lo've after Death, 



BALLADS, POEMS, AND LYRICS, ORIGINAL 

AND TRANSLATED. 

Dublin : M'Glashan. 

*,j* A few Copies of this Edition may ftill be had of Mr. Cornifh, Bookfeller and Publifher, 
1 8, Grafton Street, Dublin. 

III. 

THE BELL-FOUNDER, THE VOYAGE OF ST. BRENDAN, THE 

FORAY OF CON O'DONNELL, ALICE AND 

UNA, AND OTHER POEMS. 

London : Kent and Co. (Bogue). Dublin : M'Glashan 

AND Gill. 

IV. 

THE BRIDAL OF THE YEAR, THE YEAR KING, THE MEETING 

OF THE FLOWERS, THE PROGRESS OF THE ROSE, 

AND OTHER POEMS OF THE FANCY. 

(Underglimpses.) 

London : Kent and Co. (Bogue). Dublin : M'Glashan 
AND Gill. 



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THE SPANISH DRAMA. 




CALDERON'S DRAMAS AND AUTOS, 

Translated into English Verse 
BY DENIS FLOEENCE MAC-CARTHY. 



From Ticknor's History of Spanish 
Literature. London: 1863. 
"Denis Florence M'Carthy published 
in London (in 1861) translations of 
two plays, and an auto of Calderon, 
under the title of 'Love, the greatest 
Enchantment J the Sorceries of Sin; 
the Devotion of the Cross, from the 
Spanish of Calderon, attempted strictly 
in English Asonante, and other imi- 
tative Verse', printing, at the same time, 
a carefully corrected text of the origi- 
nals, page by page, opposite to his 
translations. It is, I think, one of the 
boldest attempts ever made in Enghsh 
verse. It is, too, as it seems to me, re- 
markably successful. Not that aso- 
nanies can be made fluent or graceful in 
English, or easily perceptible to an 
English ear, but that the Spanish air 
and character of Calderon are so hap- 
pily preserved. Mr. McCarthy, in 
1853, had published two volumes of 
translations from Calderon, to which I 
have already referred; and, besides 
this, he has rendered excellent service 
to the cause of Spanish literature in 
other ways. But in the present volume 
he has far surpassed all he had pre- 
viously done; for Calderon is a poet 
who, whenever he is translated, should 
have his very excesses, both in thought 
and manner, fully produced, in order 
to give a faithful idea of what is 
grandest and most distinctive in his 
genius. Mr. McCarthy has done this, 
I conceive, to a degree which I had 
previously considered impossible. No- 
thing, I think, in the Enghsh language 
will give us so true an impression of 
what is most characteristic of the Spa- 
nish drama ; perhaps I ought to say, of 
what is most characteristic of Spanish 
poetry generally".— tom. iii. pp. 461, 
462. 



ftaltung". 1862. (Srgter SSaube, 479 

"(Srtt)Si)nengtt)ertl)igtfolgenberMt)ne 
oergud) einer 9^ad)bilbung ©olberon' 
6ct)er gtucJe in @ngligd)en iCggonanjen. 

"Love, the greatest enchantment; 
The Sorceries of Sin ; The Devotion of 
the Cross, from the Spanish of Calde- 
ro 1, attempted strictly in English Aso- 
nante, and other imitative verse. By 
Denis Florence Mac-Carthy". 

Siege Uebergetjung i^t bem SSerfafger 
ber "History of Spanish Literature", 
George Ticknor, jugeeignet/ ber in einem 
®d)reiber au ben Uebergetjer W %tbtxt 
" marvellous" nennt unb bam fortfSt)rt : 

"fKxt^t ha^ gie bie ^ggonangen Um 
engligd)en S)i)r so i)5rbar gemad^t t)dtten/ 
tt)ie bieg mit ten @panigd)en ber gall 
x^t'i ungere tt)iberl)aarigen congonanten 
mad)en bieg unmoglid) 5 bag SOSunberbare 
igt nur/ bag gie biegelben itberl)aupt 
l)5rbar gemad)t :^aben. 50^einer SiJteins 
ung nacl) nel)me id) 3i)t'c ^ggonanjen go 
beutlid) tt)a!)r/ ml bie S3on 2tugu|t 
©cl}legel ober ©rieg unb mebr alg W^ 
ienigen griebricf) ©d^legel'g. 2Cber bieger 
tt)ar ber ergte/ ber ben oergud^ baju 
ma^tz, unb aufgerbem bin ict) ^ein 
©eutgcl)er. 5Surbe eg nid)t lugtig gein, 
it)enn man einmal ein gold)eg @):periment 
in fransogd)td)er @pract)e wolte 'i" 

"Dt)ne gweifel wurbe 5i}lac©artl)t) 
£)l)ne ben oorgaug beutgdjer 9'lact)bilbner 
beg ©alberon ebengo wenig barauf ge* 
fommen gein engligd)e ^Cggonanjen §u 
oergud)en/ alg man ol)ne bag ermun:: 
ternbe SSeigpiel beutgd)er Sid)ter unb 
Uebergetjer barauf gefommen gein wurbe/ 
in Uebergetjungen unb originalbici)tun5 
gen unter weldjen letjtern wol begonberg 
£ongfellott)'g "Evangeline", gu nennen 
iU, engligc^e ^ejcameter ju t)ergud)en/ 
tt)ag in letjter sett gar nid)t gelten geg* 
^z^iXi igt '. 



^xixui^ from Conthuntal gtijuin^. 



From // sgiaater fur Citerarigd)e Unter= 



From " Bolttin de Ferro-Carriles". 
Cadiz: 1862. 

"La novedad que nos comunica de 



Calderoris Dramas and Aufos. 



la existencia de traducciones tan aca- 
badas de nuestro grande e inimitable Cal- 
deron, ostendando, hasta cierto punto, 
las galas j formas del original, estamos 
seguros sera acogida con favor, si no 
con entusiasmo, per los rerdaderos a- 
mantes de las letras espaiiolas. A ellos 
nos dirijimos, recomendandoles el ul- 
timo trabajo del Senor Mac-Cartliy, 
seguros de que participaran del mismo 
placer que nosotros hemos experimen- 
tado al examinar su fiel, al ]3ar que 
brillante traduccion ; y en cuanto a la 
dificil tentativa de los asonantes in- 
gleses, nos sorpende que el Sefior Mac- 
Carthy haya podido sacar tanto par- 
ido, si se considera la indole peculiar 
de los dos idiomas". 



€xtrncls from '^ttuxB MxtB^h to 

Frov7 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 
Esq. 

Cambridge, near Boston, 

America, April 29, 

1862, 

" I thank you very much for your 
new work in the vast and flowery fields 
of Calderon, It is, I thuik, admirable ; 
and presents the old Spanish dramatist 
before the English reader in a very at- 
tractive light. 

"Particularly in the most poetical 
passages you are excellent ; as, for in- 
stance, in the fine description of the 
gerfalcon and the heron in ' El Mayor 
Encanto'. — 11 J dr. 

" Your previous voliunes I have long 
possessed and highly prized; and I 
hope you mean to add more and more, 
so as to make tlie translation as nearly 
complete as a single life will permit. 
It seems ratlier appalling to undertake 
the whole of so voluminous a writer. 
Nevertheless, I hope you will do it. 
Having proved that you can, perhaps 
you ouglit to do it. This may be your 
appointed work. It is a noble one. 
" With much regard, I am, etc., 

" Hekry W. Longfellow. 
" Denis Florence Mac-Carthy, Esq ". 



From the Same. 

Nahant, near Boston, 
August 10, 1857. 
" My Dear Sir, 

" Before leaving Cambridge to come 
doAvn here to the sea-side, I had the 



pleasure of receiving your precious 
volume of ' Mysteries of Corpus Clu-is- 
ti' ; and should have thanked you 
sooner for your kindness in sending it 
to me, had I not been very busy at the 
time in getting out my last volume of 
Dante. 

" I at once read your work, with ea- 
gerness and delight— that peculiar and 
strange delight which Calderon gives 
his admirers, as peculiar and distinct 
as the flavour of an olive from that 
of all other fruits. 

" You are doing this work admirably, 
and seem to gain new strength and 
sweetness as you go on. It seems as if 
Calderon himself were behind you 
whispering and suggesting. And what 
better work could you do in your 
bright hours or in your dark hours 
than just this, which seems to have 
been put providentially into your 
hands ! 

" The extracts from the ' Sacred Par- 
nassus' in the Chronicle, which reached 
me yesterday, are also excellent. 

" Por this and all, many and many 
thanks. 

"Yours faithfully, 

" Henry W. Longeellow. 
" Denis Florence Mac-Carthy, Esq.". 

From George Ticknor, Esq., the Histo- 
rian of Spanish Literature. 

" Boston, 16th December, 1861. 

" In this point of view, your volimae 
seems to me little less than marvellous. 
If I had not read it — indeed, if I had 
not carefully gone tlu-ough with the 
Devocion de la Cruz, I should not 
have believed it possible to do what you 
have done. Titian, they say, and some 
others of the old masters, laid on 
colours for their groundwork wholly 
different from those they used after- 
wards, but which they counted upon to 
shine through, and contribute mate- 
rially to the grand results they pro- 
duced. So in your translations, the 
Spanish seems to come through to the 
surface ; the original air is always per- 
ceptible in your variations. It is like 
a family hkeness coming out in the 
next generation, yet with the freshness 
of originality. 

" But the rhyme is as remarkable as 
the verse and the translation ; not that 
you have made the asonante as percep- 
tible to the Enghsh ear as it is to the 
Spanish ; our cumbersome consonants 
make that impossible. But the wonder 



C alder on s Dramas and Autos. 



is, that you have made it perceptible at 
all. I think I perceive jour asonantes 
much as I do those of August Schlegel 
or Gries, and more than I do those of 
Friederich Schlegel. But he was the 
first who tried them, and, besides, I am 
not a German. Would it not be amu- 
sing to have the experiment tried in 
French ?" 

From the Same. 

•'Boston, March 20, 1867. 
" The world has claims on you which 
you ought not to evade ; and, if the 
path in wliich you walk of preference, 
leads to no Avide popularity or brilliant 
profits, it is, at least, one you have 
much to yourself, and cannot fail to 
enjoy. You have chosen it from faithful 
love, and will always love it ; I suspect 
partly because it is your own choice, 
because it is peculiarly your own". 



From the Same. 

"Boston, July 3, 1867. 
" Considered from this point of view, 
I think that in your present volume 
["Mysteries of Corpus Christi", or 
"Autos Sacramentales" of Calderon] 
you are always as successful as you 
were in your previous publications of 
the same sort, and sometimes more so ; 
easier, I mean, freer, and more happily 
expressive. If I were to pick out my 
first preference, I should take your 
fragment of the ' Yeneno y Triaca', at 
the end ; but I think the whole volume 
is more fluent, pleasing, and attractive 
than even its predecessors". 



From the first of English religiovs 
painters. 

April 24, 1867. 

" I cannot resist the impulse I have 
of offering you my most grateful thanks 
for the greatest intellectual treat I 
have ever experienced in my life, and 
which you have afforded me in the 
magnificent translations of the divine 
Calderon ; for, surely, of all the poets 
the world ever saw, he alone is worthy 
of standing beside the author of the 
Book of Job and of the Psalms, and 
entrusted, like them, %vith the noble 
mission of commending to the hearts 
of others all that belongs to the beau- 
tiful and true, ever directing the 
ihoughtful reader through the love of 
the beautiful veil, to the great Author 
of all perfection. 



" I cannot conceive a nation can re- 
ceive a greater boon than being helped 
to a love of such works as the religious 
dramas of this Prince of Poets. I have 
for years felt this, and as your transla- 
tions appeared, have read them with 
the greatest possible interest. I knew 
not of the publication of the last, and 
it was to an accidental, yet, with me, 
habitual outburst of praise of Calde- 
ron, as the antidote and cure for the 
trifling literature of the day, that my 
friend (the) D — made me aware of its 
being out". 

[The work especially referred to in 
the latter part of this interesting letter 
js the following : " Mysteries of Corpus 
Christi (Autos acromentales), from 
the Spanish of Calderon, by Denis 
Florence Mac-Carthy". Duffy, Dublin 
and London, 1867.] 



€%itui^ from gnuricHtt attb dCaita- 



From an eloquent article in the *' Boston 
Courier", March 18, 1862, written by 
George Stillman Hillard, Esq., the 
author of " Six Months in Italy" — a 
delightful book, worthy of the beauti- 
ful country it so beautifidly describes. 

" Calderon is one of the three greatest 
names in Spanish Hterature, Lope de 
Vega and Cervantes being the other 
two. He is also a great name in the 
universal realm of letters, though out 
of Spain he is httle more than a great 
name, except in Germany, that land so 
hospitable to famous wits, and where, 
to readers and critics of a mystical and 
transcendental turn, his peculiar genius 
strongly commended him. To form a 
notion of what manner of man Calde- 
ron was, we must imagine a writer 
hardly inferior to Shakespeare in fer- 
tility of invention and dramatic insight, 
inspu-ed by a religious fervour like that 
of Doune or Crashaw, and endowed 
with the wild and ethereal imagination 
of Shelley. But the rehgious fervour 
is Cathohc, not Protestant, Southern, 
not Northern : it is intense, mystical, 
and ecstatic : hke a tongue of upward- 
darting flame, it burns and trembles 
with impassioned impulse to mingle 
with empyrean flre. The imagination, 
too, is not merely southern, but with an 
oriental element shining through it, 
like the ruddy heart of an opal". . . 



Calderoiis Dramas and Autos. 



" But our purpose is not to speak of 
Calderon, but of his translator Mr. 
MacCarthy ; and to make our readers 
acquainted with his very successful 
effort to reproduce in English some of 
the most characteristic productions of 
the genius of Spain, retaining even one 
of the peculiarities in the structure of 
the verse which has hardly ever been 
transplanted from the soil of the pe- 
ninsula". . . . 

"■ Mr. MacCarthy's translations strike 
us as among the most successful experi- 
ments Avhich have been made to repre- 
sent in our language the characteristic 
beauties of the finest productions of 
other nations. They are sufficiently 
faithful, as may be readily seen by the 
Spanish scholar, as the translator has 
the courage to print the original and 
his version side by side. The rich, 
imaginative passages of Calderon are 
reproduced in language of such grace 
and flexibility as shows in Mr. Mac- 
Carthy no inconsiderable amount of 
poetical power. The measures of Cal- 
deron are retained; the rhymed pas- 
sages are translated into rhyme, and 
what is more noticeable still, Mr. Mac- 
Carthy has done what no writer in Eng- 
lish has ever before essayed, except to 
a very limited extent— he has copied 
the asonantes of the original". . . . 

"We take leave of Mr. MacCarthy 
with hearty acknowledgments for the 
pleasure we have had in reading his 
excellent translations, which have given 
us a sense of Calderon's various and 
brilliant genius such as we never before 
had, and no analysis of his dramas, 
however full and careful, could be- 
stow". 



From a Review of " Love the Greatest 
EncJiantnienr, etc., in the " New York 
Tciblet'\ Julfj 19, 1862, written hy the 
gijttd and ill-fated Eon. Jhomas 
D'Arcy M'Gte, of Montreal. 

" This beautiful volume before us — 
like virtue's self, fair within and Avith- 
out— is Mr. Mac-Carthy's second con- 
tribution to the Herculean task which 
Longfellow cheers him on to continue — 
the translation into English of the 
complete works of Calderon. Two 
experimental volumes, containing six 
dramas of the same author, appeared 
n 1853, winning the well-merited en- 



comium of every person of true taste 
into whose hands they happened to 
fall. The Translator was encouraged, 
if not by the general chorus of popular 
applause, by the precious and emphatic 
approbation of those best entitled by- 
knowledge and accomplishments to 
pronounce judgment. So here, after 
an interval of seven years, we have 
right worthily presented to us three of 
those famous Autos, which for two 
centuries drew together all the multi- 
tude of the Madrilenos, on the annual 
return of the great feast of Corpus 
Christi. On that same self-same festi- 
val, in a northern land, under a gray 
and clouded sky, in the heart of a city 
most unlike gay, garden-hued, out-of- 
door Madrid, we have spent the long 
hours over these resurrected dramas, 
and the spell of both the poets is still 
upon us, as we unite together, in dutiful 
juxtaposition, the names of Calderon 
and Mac-Carthy. 

" How richly gifted was this Spanish 
priest-poet ! this pious playwright ! this 
moral mechanist ! this devout drama- 
tist ! How rare his experience ! how 
broad the contrasts of his career, and 

of his observation Happy 

poet ! blessed with such fecundity ! 
Happy Christian! blessed with such 
fidehty to the divine teachings of the 
Cross. . . . 

" Very highly do we reverence Cal- 
deron, and very highly value his trans- 
lator ; yet, if it be not presumptuous to 
say so, we venture to suggest that 
Mac-Carthy might find nearer home 
another work still worthier of his ge- 
nius than these translations. Now that 
he has got the imperial ear by bringing 
his costly wares from afar, are there 
not laurels to be gathered as well in 
Ireland as in Spain ? The author of 
'The Bell-Founder', of 'St. Brendan's 
Voyage', of ' The Foray of Con O'Don- 
neir, and 'The Pillar Towers', needs 
no prompting to discern what abundant 
materials for a new department of En- 
glish poetry are to be found almost 
unused on Irish ground. May we not 
hope that in that field or forest he may 
find his appointed work, adding to the 
glory of first worthily introducing 
Calderon to the English readers of 
this century, the still higher glory of 
doing for the neglected history of his 
fatherland what he has chivalrously 
done for the illustrious Spaniard". 



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^ffxtt ©ramas of Caltrjtott, 

jFrom tije Spanisij. 



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LOVE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT, 

THE SORCERIES OF SIN, AND THE 

DEVOTION OF THE CROSS. 

BY DENIS FLORENCE MAC-CARTHY. 



DUBLIN: W. B. KELLY, 8 GRAFTON STREET. 

1870. 



.OVE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT: 

THE SORCERIES OF SIN: 

THE DEVOTION OF THE CROSS. 

FROM THE SPANISH OF CALDERON. 

ATTEMPTED STRICTLY IN ENGLISH ASONANTE AND 
OTHER IMITATIVE VERSE, 

BY DENIS FLORENCE MAC-CARTHY, M.R.I. A. 

i^ITH AN INTRODUCTION TO EACH DRAMA, AND NOTES BY THE TRANSLATOR, AND THE 

SPANISH TEXT FROM THE EDITIONS OF HARTZENBUSCH, 

KEIL, AND APONTES. 



LONDON : 

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN AND ROBERTS. 

1861. 



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TO 

GEORGE TICKNOR, ESQ, 

THE HISTORIAN OF SPANISH LITERATURE, 

CJis 5Eolume 

IS INSCRIBED IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF INFORMATION 

LIBERALLY COMMUNICATED, 

AND PRAISE GENEROUSLY BESTOWED. 




PREFACE. 




N 1853 I publiflied two volumes of tranflations from the 
Spanifh of Calderon, which contained the firft (as it ftill 
continues to be the only) complete veriion of any of his 
plays that has ever been prefented to the Englifh reader.^ 
This attempt met with as much fuccefs as I could have 
reafonably anticipated for it, conlidering the circumftances under which 
the work grew up, as detailed in the preface, and the timidity with 
which I fhrunk from the whole metrical difficulties of my tafk — dif- 
ficulties which then appeared to me to be fo infurmountable, that, had 
I the time, I fcarcely would have had the courage to try and overcome. 
A forced leifure, however, of many months, occurring at irregular 
intervals, but extending through the whole of the intervening period. 



* The dramas contained in thofe volumes are the following : — The Purgatory of 
Saint Patrick, The Conjiant Prince, The Scarf and the Flonvery The Phyjician of his 
oivn Honour, The Secret in Words, and Lo^e after Death. The remark in the text is 
by no means meant to difparage Mr. Fitzgerald's Six Plays of Calderon freely tranf- 
lated, London, 1853, the nervous blank verfe of which, though I think unfuited to 
Calderon, I greatly admire ; but furely a tranflator who confeffes that he has " funk, 
reduced, altered, and replaced" whatever did not feem to him particularly "fine" in 
his author, can fcarcely be taken as a fatisfaflory interpreter of a poet whofe very de- 
fers and extravagances are as charafleriftic of his genius as are his beauties. 



PREFACE. 



having again induced me to refume my labours upon Calderon, I felt 
the very difficulties, which before I had left unattempted, an attra6lion 
and an incentive, as fupplying a more laborious occupation, and a more 
engroffing diftra6lion. I felt, too, a fmcere artiftic conviction that I was 
bound to do my beft for a poet whom I had been, to fome extent, inftru- 
mental in introducing to a foreign audience, and a determination that 
he fhould not fufFer in their eftimation by any wilful omiffion or negle6i: 
on the part of him at whofe invitation he had appeared before them. 
Two things I fet before me at the beginning of my renewed tafk, which, 
I truft, I have pretty faithfully obferved to the end ; namely, in the firft 
place, to give the meaning of my author exaClly, and in its integrity, 
neither departing from it through dift'ufenefs, nor cramping it through 
condenfation ; and, fecondly, to exprefs it ftriClly in the form of the 
original, or not to exprefs it at all. 

It is by no means my intention to enter into the oft-debated queftion 
as to the principles which fhould guide or coerce the tranflator in his 
tafk. As far as the tranflator is concerned, it is a much eafier thing to 
produce a popular and flowing verfion of any foreign poem or play, than 
a faithful and exa61: one ; and the efFe6l to be produced will fo depend 
upon the capacity and culture of the reader, — whether, in a word, he 
will have his German or Spanifh fo thoroughly " done into Englifh," as 
to have every particle of its original nature eliminated out of it, or will 
have it faithfully prefented to him, with all its native peculiarities pre- 
ferved, — is fo much a matter of tafle, that no definite rule can ever 
be arrived at in the matter. What Mr. Newman has faid upon this 
fubje6t fo entirely agrees with my own impreffions, that I print his ob- 
fervations here, the more readily, that I have been actuated independently 
by the fame convictions long before I was aware that they were fhared 
by him. Mr. Newman, alluding to fome of his own critics, who had 
laid down, as axioms, certain principles which he confiders to be utterly 



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PREFJCE. 



falfe and ruinous to tranflation, thus proceeds : — " One of thefe is, that 
the reader ought, if poflible, to forget that it is a tranflation at all, and 
be lulled into the illufion that he is reading an original work. Of courfe, 
a neceflary inference from fuch a dogma is, that whatever has a foreign 
colour is undefirable, and is even a grave defe61:. The tranflator, it 
feems, muft carefully obliterate all that is charaderiftic of the original, 
unlefs it happens to be identical in fpirit to fomething already familiar in 
Englifti. From fuch a notion I cannot too ftrongly exprefs my intenfe 
difTent. I aim at precifely the oppofite -, — to retain every peculiarity of the 
original, as far as I am able, with the greater care^ the more foreign it may 
happen to he^ whether it be matter of tafte, of intelle61:, or of morals. ""^ 

On this principle I have adted throughout the entire of this volume, 
with what fuccefs, however, of courfe remains to be feen. 

The peculiar feature, then, of this Tranflation is its rigid adherence 
to the metres of the original, and particularly to that efpecial Spanifh 
one, the afonante vowel rhyme, of which but a few fcattered fpecimens 
exift in Englifh, and thefe rather as famples of what our language was 
incapable of producing to any confiderable extent, than of what it could 
achieve. This metre is fo very peculiar, and io oppofed to anything 
that bears the femblance of rhyme in Englifh, that I have known feveral 
perfons, who were able to read in the original a romance, or a fcene 
from a Spanifh play, and who, notwithftanding, never perceived the 
delicate and mofl elaborate form of verification they had been enjoying, 
until their attention was drawn to it ; when once (tQn or heard, however, 
the difcovery is hailed with delight, and we look or liflen for the ever- 
recurring fimilarity of cadence or conflrudtion, " the manifold wild 
chimes" of the Spanifh afonance, with pleafure and furprife. The 
numerous examples of it throughout this volume will fhow the reader 

* The Iliad of Homer, faithfully tranjlated into unrhymed EngliJIi Metre, by F. W. 
Newman. (London, 1856,) Preface, p. xv. 



PREFACE. 



what it is more clearly, perhaps, than any explanation , and yet fome 
definition of it may not be inappropriate in this place. *' The Spanifh 
afonante^'* ^ fays the late Lord Holland, " is a word which refembles 
another in the vowel on which the laft accent falls, as well as the vowel, 
or vowels, that follow it , but every confonant after the accented vowel 
muft be different from that in the correfponding fyllable. Thus : tos 
and arnbr^ orilla and delira^ alamo Sind paxaroy sue all afonantes,^^ \ This 
definition, though, perhaps, a little too limited for the boundlefs variety 
and freedom of the afonance, may be confidered tolerably fatisfa6tory. 
The rhyme, fuch as it is, is not confined, as in all other languages, to a 
few repetitions, of which thofe in the o6tave ftanza are, perhaps, the 
moft frequent ; but in Spanifh, the fame afonance, that is, the fame 
recurring fimilarity of vowel, or vowels, in the lafl accented fyllable, or 
fyllables, of every fecond line is kept up unchanged, however long may 
be the ballad or the fcene in which it is commenced. In Spanifh, from 
the open found of the vowels, and from the copioufnefs of the language, 
this is eafy. In fa6t, it is faid that the difficulty lies not in producing 
the afonante where it is required, but in avoiding it in the intermediate 
lines, where it is fuperfluous. But in EngHfh the cafe is very different; 
from the comparative weaknefs of the vowel founds,^ from the rare 
poffibility of combining them, and, what is flill more, from their per- 

* This, word is generally written ajjonant in Englifh. For a thing fo entirely 
Spanifh, perhaps the Spaniih form is the more appropriate one, and I have therefore 
followed Lord Holland and Mr. Ticknor in calling it by its original name. 

f Life of Lope de Vega, vol. ii. p. 215. 

X Mr. Newman has a remark, in the Preface from which I have already quoted, 
which feems to be applicable here, efpecially in reference to the general objedlion made 
againft the introdu6lion of the afonance into northern languages, namely, its infuffici- 
ency and incompletenefs oi found. ** An accentual metre," he fays, ** in a language 
loaded with confonants, cannot have xht fame fort of founding beauty, as a quantitative 
metre in a highly vocalized language. It is not audible famenefs of metre, but a like- 
nefs qI moral genius which is to be arrived at." P. xvii. 



PREFACE. 



petual variation in quantity, anything like producing the fame efFe6t as 
in the Spanifh is impoflible. Yet this " ghoft of a rhyme," as Dean 
Trench calls it,* is better than none at all ; and I have found, from my 
ow^n experience, that an inflexible determination to reproduce it, at 
whatever trouble, even though with imperfe6l fuccefs, enables the tranf- 
lator more clofely to render the meaning of the original, and faves him 
from the danger of being tempted into difFufenefs by the facilities of 
expanfion which even the unrhymed trochaic, without the afonante^ too 
readily fupplies. Tranflators who have felt the weight of too much 
liberty might find within the reftri6led limits of the afonance the fame 
falutary reftraints which Wordfworth difcovered 

" Within the fonnet's fcanty plot of ground" — 
it is to be hoped with fome flight portion of the fame fuccefs. 

With regard to the dramas and auto feledled for tranflation in this 

* In his charming little book on Calderon {Lifers a Dream, &c. London, 1856), 
Dean Trench has the merit of being the firft to attempt the tranflation of any portion 
of Calderon into equivalent Englifh afonantes ; his tranflations having been made, as 
I infer from his preface, about eighteen years before they were publifhed. 

I may fupply here an omiffion in the Preface to my Dramas from Calderon^ when 
noticing the contributions to a knowledge of the Spanifh Drama which our early 
Englifh literature fupplies, an omiflion alfo noticeable in that part of Dean Trench's 
EiTay which goes over the fame ground. I was not aware at the time that Preface 
was written that Sir Richard Fanfhaw, the tranflator of Guarini and Camoens, had 
given, in 16^9, a very pleafmg verfion in fhort lyrical lines, almoft Spanifh in their fe- 
licity and grace, of Antonio de Mendoza's long and fmgular drama, ^erer par S.0I0 
S^uerer (" To Love for Love's Sake"). This is the drama which took Charles Lamb 
three " well- wafted hours" to read, and, according to him, nine days to reprefent. 
(See the ExtraSis from the Garrick Plays in his Specimens of Englifh Dramatic Poets, 
Bohn's Ed. 1854, p. 476.) " Five or fix mortal hours," however, are the limits which 
Don Ramon de Mefoneros Romanos in the Apuntes Biograficos prefixed to his Dra- 
maticos Contemporaneos de Lope de Vega, t. ii. p. 28, puts to the patience of the 
audience in liftening to the fix thoufand four hundred verfes of whch the original drama 
confifls. 



PREFACE. 



volume, little requires to be faid in this place, as I have prefixed to each 
of them fuch introductory remarks as feemed neceflary for the proper 
underftanding of the time and circumftances of their produ6tion. They 
all may be confidered reprefentative pieces — pieces that convey a fair 
idea of the clafs of drama, whether Fiejia^ Comedia^ or Auto^ to which 
they belong. The firft. Love the Greateji Enchantment^ which is the 
ftory of Circe and Ulyfles, is a favourable fpecimen of the dramas which 
Calderon founded upon claflical or mythological fubje6ts. Of thefe he 
wrote altogether eighteen, and though they have been greatly admired, 
not alone in Germany, but in England, for the freedom with which the 
poet entered into pofleflion of thefe ancient fables, ufmg them for his 
own purpofes with a frefhnefs of invention evqf new and ever delightful, 
but one only out of the eighteen has ever been even analyfed in EngHfh 
with anything like completenefs or precifion.* 

The next piece. The Sorceries of Sin^ is even ftill more interefting and 
more wonderful. It is an auto^ and therefore, though dealing with the 
fame ftory as its foundation, is as different from the preceding play as 
fpirit is to matter, or the foul to the body. In fa6t, the long dramatic 
fpe£tacle in which the ancient Hellenic fable ftarts into new life, in an- 
other climate, and at a different era, beneath the power of a new creator, 
feems to be worthlefs in the poet's eyes, unlefs he can deduce from it 
its moralj namely, the power of Man to refift, or, at leaft, to triumph 
over temptation, if he will only liften to the voice of his own foul, and 
the filent whifperings of repentance and of grace. This he has done in 
The Sorceries of Sin. In the introdu6tory remarks which I have pre- 
fixed to it the reader will find fome moft interefting and valuable biblio- 
graphical notes by Mr. Ticknor, relative to the firft publication of the 

* The drama alluded to is Los Tres Mayores Prodigios, on which there is a good paper 
in Frazer''s Magazine for Auguft 1849. Ecoy Narcifo is referred to with great praife 
in the Wejlminfler Re^ie^w for January 1851, pp. 295-307. 



PREFACE, 



XIll 



autos^ taken from communications which he has had the kindnefs to 
addrefs to me upon the fubjeft. Upon the general chara6ter of the autos 
I cannot do better than refer the reader to the third part of Dean 
Trench's effay, to which I have previoufly made allufion. 

The celebrity of the third piece which this volume contains, The 
Devotion of the Crofs^ and the mifconceptions which exift as to its real 
charailer, will be, I truft, fufficient excufe for my having tranflated it. 
As in the other cafes, I refer the reader to the introdu6tory remarks 
prefixed to this tragedy, which Dean Trench chara6i:erizes as, " defpite 
of all its perverfity, a wonderful and terrible drama."* l 

The Spanifh text, which I have printed for the convenience of thje 
reader, is founded, as far as the comedias are concerned, partly on the 
edition of Keil, and partly on that of Hartzenbufch. The fcenes are 
altogether taken from the latter edition. Where any important difFerencp 
exifts between the text of the two editions, I have generally drawi^ 
attention to it in a foot-note. The auto^ with the exception of a fe^^ 
flight corre6i:ions, is printed verbatim from the edition by Apontesl 

[Autos Sacrament ales ^ 6 vols. 4to. Madrid, 1759-60, vol. vi. p. 109). fi 

^___ \ 

* For a fupplementary note to The Demotion of the Crofs fee next page. 

f In addition to what has been faid in the note to p. xi. relative to Sir Richard 
Fanfhaw's tranflation of S^uerer for Solo ^erer, it may be mentioned that he alfo tranf- 
lated another dramatic fpe6lacle from the Spanifh, called Fiejias de Aranjuez. See 
The Companion to the Play-houfe, London, 1764., v. ii., under letter F, where it is erro- 
neoufly attributed to Mendoza. This is doubtlefs the mafque written, by the unfortu- 
nate Count of Villa-Mediana, for the birth-day feftivities of Philip IV. in 1622. See 
Ticknor, v. ii. p. 172, n.; fee alfo Madame d'Aulnoy's Relation du Voyage d'Efpagne, 
t. ii. pp. 20, 21. (La Haye, 171 5,) for a very curious account of the exhibition of this 
fpe6lacle, and for the author's premeditated aft of daring gallantry towards the Queen, 
which, it is fuppofed, led to his immediate aflaffination. 



Summer field, Dalkey, 

September, 1861. 




SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE TO THE DEVOTION 
OF THE CROSS. 

!N the Introdu6lion to The Deiwtion of the Crofs, and at p. 284. of the 
Tranflation, I have ftated that La De'vocion de la Cruz was firft printed at 
Huefca, in 1634., under the title of La Cruz en la Sepultura, and as the 
work of Lope de Vega. This miftake, in a volume forming a portion of 
a colle6lion containing the dramas of various authors, is perhaps not to be wondered 
a' ; but it feems ftrange that the fame error ihould be repeated fix years later, in a 
volume of the colle6lion devoted exclufively to the dramas of Lope himfelf, in the 
tA^enty-fourth part or volume of which (Madrid, 1640) La Cruz en la Sepultura is 
again given as the work of Lope de Vega.* In a note to the exceedingly valuable 
catalogue of all the Comedias and Autos of Lope de Vega, compiled with fuch care and 
libour by the diftinguiftied Spanifh fcholar Mr. J. R. Chorley, of London, and pre- 
sented by him with fo much liberality to Seiior Hartzenbufch for his fourth volume of 
Lope's Comedias Efcogidas (Madrid, 1853-60), it is ftated that this twenty-fourth part 
IS the only one out of the twenty-five to which the colleftion of Lope's comedias ex- 
tended (1604-47), which i§ wanting to complete the copy in the Spanifh Library of 
Lord Taunton, at Stoke Park, near London. It is preferved, however, with the others 
in the National Library of Madrid. Mr. Chorley alfo mentions that according to Mr. 
Ticknor (under date Oftober 1857), the edition of Huefca, 1634, is to be found in the 
Library of the Arfenal at Paris, and in the Libraiy of the Vatican at Rome. A volume 
of the colleftion of feparately-printed Spanifh plays, brought from Spain by Lord Ar- 
lington in the reign of Charles the Second, and now preferved in the Library of the 
Britifh Mufeum, contains, according to Mr. Chorley, two of Calderon's dramas 
(one of them being La Cruz en la Sepultura), which are both attributed to Lope de 
Vega.f 

* See Schack's Gefchichte der Dramattjchen Literatur und Kunfi in Spanien, b. 11. p. 696, 
Lord Holland's Life of Lope de Vega^ vol. ii. p. 151, and Mr. Chorley's Catalogode Comedias y Autos 
de Frey Lope Felix de Vega Carpio, referred to above, 

f Catalogo de Comedias, &c. p. 542. I may add that the fecond. Amor, Honor, y Poder is alfo 
given under another name in the twenty-fourth of Lope's Comedias above mentioned. The volume 
publiihed at Huefca in 1 634 contains, in addition to thefe, a third of Calderon's dramas, erroneoufly 
attributed to Lope, namely Un Cajiigo en Ires Venganzas. See Hartzenbufch's Catalogo Cronologico, 
Comedias de Calderon, t. iv. p. 669. 



LOVE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 



FROM THE SPANISH OF CALDERON. 





INTRODUCTION. 

HE Homeric Circe, previous to her becoming the heroine 
of this drama of Calderon, had figured under various 
names, and with various adventures, in the romances 
and romantic poetry of Europe, and we recognize her as 
the fame perfon, whether called Morgana, as in Launcelot 
du Lac, and in Boiardo, Alcina, as in Ariofto, or Armida, as in Taflb. 
To thefe may be added the Duefla of Spenfer, in 1590, and in 1634 
(the year preceding the firft performance of Calderon's drama) a male 
reprodu6tion of the chara6ter in the " Comus" of Milton. Under her 
original name. Lope de Vega had devoted upwards of three thoufand 
lines to her adventures in his " Circe," a poem in o61:ave ftanzas, which 
he publifhed in 1624. The ground-work of Calderon's Circe is to be 
found in Homer, Odyjfey^ B. x. from line 135 to 574, and B. xii. from 
line 8 to 141. But he was under great obligations both to Ariofto and 
to Taflb, the former of whom, in the Sixth Canto of the Orlando, and 
the latter, to a ftill greater degree, in the Sixteenth Canto of the " Geru- 
falemme," fupply him with many of his moft interefting incidents. In- 
deed the thirty-feventh ftanza of the Sixteenth Canto of the latter poem 
may be taken as the key-note of his entire compofition, and as fuch I 
introduce it here in the quaint verfion of Fairfax, although the con- 
cluding couplet of the original — 



4 LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 

Lafcia gP incanti, e vuol provar fe vaga 
E fupplice belta fia miglior maga — 

more clearly exprefles the meaning of Calderon : — 

All what the witches of ThefTalia land 

With lips unpure yet ever faid or fpake, 
Words that could make heaven's rolling circles ftand, 

And draw the damned ghofts from Limbo lake, 
All well fhe knew, but yet no time fhe fand 

To ufe her knowledge or her charms to make. 
But left her arts, and forth fhe ran to prove 
If fmgle beauty were beft charm for love. 

The experiment of recalling Ulyfles to his martial taftes and duties, 
by placing before him the long-unufed armour of Achilles, is probably 
fuggefted by the fimilar ftratagem which gave Rinaldo courage to break 
from the enchantments of Armida ; but both, no doubt, founded upon 
one of the later traditions of Achilles himfelf, who, when concealed in 
the court of Lycomedes of Scyros, under the difguife of a maiden, was 
difcovered by Odyfleus through a fomewhat fimilar ftratagem. The 
condu6t of Armida herfelf upon her defertion alfo prefents refemblances 
to the cataftrophe in El Mayor Encanto Amor^ detra6ling nothing, how- 
ever, from the merits of Calderon's work, in which every incident of 
the ancient claffical myth is recaft, reborn, as it were, in the creative 
mind of the poet with a frefhnefs (fays Schack, from whom I have 
derived fome of the foregoing references) which, while preferving all 
the charms of the old Hellenic Legend, imprefles upon it the diftindtive 
and not lefs delightful chara6ter of modern romance.* 

The following curious paper I have tranflated from a document firft 
publifhed by Don Cafiano Pellicer, in the fecond volume of his Tratado 
Hiftorico fohre el Origeny Progrefos dela Comedia en Efpana^ and introduced 



* Gefchichte der dramatifchen Literatur und Kunji in Spanietiy B. iii. p. 190. 



INTRODUCTION. 



as a preface to this play by Hartzenbufch in his edition of Calderon.* 
It is interefting as well for fhowing the labour which the great poet took 
in working upon the plan of the machinift, and in what refpe61:s he 
departed from it, as for the very remarkable proof which it gives of the 
mechanical refources of the theatre in the reign of Philip the Fourth, 
and the unequalled magnificence with which this and fimilar royal 
pageants were produced at the court of Madrid. The Mafques of Ben 
Jonfon,t which were about the fame period the deHght of" our James," 
are the only produ6lions which can be compared with thefe dramatic 
fpe61:acles of fplendour and ingenuity ; and while, in their united labours 
as dramatift and machinift, the palm for poetical excellence muft be given 
to Calderon, it will be perceived that, in productions of this kind, the 
great Englifh architect had no mean rival in the lefs widely known, but 
ftill famous Italian artift, who had the honour of being Calderon's fellow- 
labourer in thefe magnificent fhows. 

" CIRCE, 

" J Dramatic SpeSfacle which was reprefented on the great pond of the 
Retiro^X i^^ invention of Cofme-Lotti^ at the requeji of her moft excellent 
Ladyjhip^ the Countefs of Olivarez^ Duchefs of San Lucar la May or ^ on 
the night of St, John \yune 24, A.D. 1 63 5]. 

" There will be formed in the middle of the pond a ftationary ifland, 
raifed feven feet above the furface of the water, with a winding afcent, 
terminating at the entrance into the ifland, which will be furrounded by 
a parapet of loofe ftones, adorned with corals and other curiofities of the 



* Biblioteca de Autores Efpanoles, T. vii. p. 385. Madrid, 1848. Tratado Hif- 
torico fibre el Origen y Progrefis de la Comedla y del Hijlrionifmo en Efpaha, por D. 
Cafiano Pellicer. Parte Segunda,^. i^S. Madrid, 1804. 

f Chloridia, which he produced in conjun6lion with Inigo Jones in 1630, coft 
3000/. for decorations. 

X The celebrated palace of the Buen Retiro. 



6 LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT, 

fea, fuch as pearls and fhells of different colours, with waterfalls and 
fimilar decorations. In the midft of this ifland will be fituated a very 
lofty mountain of rugged afcent, with precipices, and caverns, furrounded 
by a thick and darkfome wood of tall trees, fome of which will be feen 
to exhibit the appearance of the human form covered with a rough bark, 
from the heads and arms of which will iffue green boughs and branches, 
having fufpended from them various trophies of war and of the chafe, 
the theatre during this opening fcene being fcantily lit with concealed 
lights : and, to make a beginning of the feftival, a murmuring and a 
rippling noife of water having been heard, a great and magnificent car 
will be feen to advance along the pond, plated over with filver, and drawn 
by two monftrous fifhes, from whofe mouths will continually iffue great 
jets of water, the light of the theatre increafing according as they ad- 
vance ; and on the fummit of it will be feen feated in great pomp and 
majefty the goddefs Aqua, from whofe head and curious vefture will 
iffue an infinite abundance of little conduits of water ^ and at the fame 
time will be feen another great fupply flowing from an urn which the god- 
defs will hold reverfed 5 and which, filled with a variety of fifhes, that, 
leaping and playing in the torrent as it defcends, and gliding over all the 
car, will fall at length into the pond. This admirable machine is to be 
accompanied by a choir of twenty nymphs of rivulets and fountains, who 
will advance, fmging and playing, along the furface of the water : and, 
when this beautiful piece of mechanifm flops in the prefence of His 
Majefly, the goddefs Aqua will commence the fcene by reprefenting the 
Loa.* This being finifhed, the found of various inftruments will be heard, 
and the proceflion will retire from the theatre in the fame order, and with 

* The Loa here mentioned is probably that which precedes the AutOy Los Encantos 
de la Culpa (The Sorceries of Sin), which is alfo founded on the ftory of UlyfTes and 
Circe, and a tranflation of which forms the fecond portion of this volume. This Loa 
has no connection with the incidents of either drama or auto, being merely a glorifi- 
cation of Madrid. In it, however, the goddefs Aqua makes her appearance, which 
fhe does not do in either Lo've the Greateji Enchantment, or in The Sorceries of Sin, her 



INTRODUCTION. 



the fame mufical accompaniment as it entered. Scarcely has it difap- 
peared, when a ftirring found of clarions and trumpets will burft forth, 
with difcharges of mufketry and cannon, and the cry oi Land! Land I 
will be heard from within : and a great and beauteous gilded bark will 
be difcovered, adorned with ftreamers, pendants, banneroles, and flags, 
which, with fwelling fails, will come to harbour, furling her fails, and 
dropping her anchors and cables ; and on her deck will be feen UlyfTes 
and his companions, who, returning thanks to the gods for having 
reached land, will fpeak of their paft misfortunes and their prefent 
neceffities, none of them having the daring to difembark even to feek 
refrefhment, fearing the dangers that might enfue ; on which account, 
lots being drawn, eighteen of them will be compelled to enter the long- 
boat, and to make the attempt : and they having tremblingly leaped on 
the ifland, a great number of various animals, fuch as lions, tigers, 
dragons, bears, and others, will place themfelves before them, who, 
aftonifhed and full of terror, will form themfelves into a body for their 
defence ; but the animals, with human intelligence, will approach them 
careflingly, at which moment will be heard a fad, but melodious ftrain 
of mufic, proceeding from the trees and plants, which with human forms 
have been there metamorphofed, at which mufical wail, the animals, in 
their various ways, will perform an extraordinary dance, and while this 
is kept up and continued, a terrible earthquake, with agitation of the air, 
will be felt, which, awakening flaflies and peals of thunder, will dart 
forth a forked bolt, that, ftriking the top and fummit of the mountain, 
will fo loofe and fhatter it, that it will fall to pieces in various parts of 
the theatre, at which event the animals will difappear, and the mufic 
will ceafe, and the mariners will remain full of terror and amazement, 

place in the car being filled, in the former, by the nymph Galatea, and in the latter 
by the perfonification of Penance. The car itfelf feems to have been ufed in other of 
thefe gorgeous fpe6lacle-plays of Calderon. In his Fhaeton^ for inftance, which was 
alfo a6led on the pond of the Retiro a few years later, there are two references to its 
having been feen by the audience on feveral previous occafions. — Translator. 



8 LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 

feeing, in the place where the mountain ftood, a fplendid palace appear, 
inlaid with precious ftones of various colours, of a rich and well-defigned 
archite6ture, with columns of agate and cryftal, having bafes, capitals, 
and cornices of gold, and ftatues of bronze and of marble, all arranged 
in their proper places. And the frightful and horrible wood will at the 
fame time be transformed into a fair and delicious garden, enclofmg 
a lofty edifice of fpherical form, with corridors and porticos ; and 
in the midft of each deHghtful compartment will be feen fountains 
of running water, covered alleys, and numbers of domeftic animals 
pafling to and fro ; and, at the appearance of this new wonder, the 
theatre will be illuminated by a brilliancy fo great, that it will feem as 
if the fun miniftered its light, which will proceed from and be the 
refult of the refle6tion which the jewels of this rich and fumptuous 
palace will make, and from two fplendid ftars which, with fmgular and 
remarkable brilliancy, will iflue from the waves and waters of the pond ; 
and, in front of the porticos and corridors in the centre of the crefcent, 
Circe will be feen feated on a majeftic throne, drefled magnificently in 
flower-embroidered robes of filk, attended by many ladies and damfels, 
fome of whom will go about gathering herbs and flowers, which they 
will place in golden bafkets, and others will colle61: in cryflial vafes waters 
of various kinds, for the ufe and convenience of the forcerefs and her 
enchantments j and Circe, with a grave and compofed countenance, 
holding a golden wand in one hand, and in the other a book, from which 
fhe reads, (the timid companions of UlyflTes being prefent, and beholding 
with wonder what has happened,) fhe will direft one of her ladies to 
encourage and to lead them to her prefence, when, with an agreeable 
and deceitful countenance, fhe will afk them who they are, and for what 
objedl they have approached that ifland. To which they will give 
anfwer, referring to the events of the fiege of Troy, and the fubfequent 
misfortunes that had befallen them fince its fall ; and they will implore 
pity and fuccour for themfelves and their difmantled and ill-provided 
veflel : and fhe, feigning compaffion for their mifery and misfortune, will 



INTRODUCTION. 



promife them affiftance, and, defcending from her throne, on which, up 
to this time, fhe has been feated, flie will ftrike the earth with her golden 
wand, and at the inftant a fplendidly-furnifhed table will arife, at which 
banquet a potion in a golden cup will be adminiftered to them which 
will transform them into fwine, with the exception of one, who, flying 
a fimilar metamorphofis, and the treacherous hofpitality of the forcerefs, 
will re-enter the boat, ftill lying by the fhore, and will relate this new 
adventure to UlyflTes : and fhe, enraged at the flight of their companion, 
will beat the feeming fwine with her wand, ordering them away to the fty, 
at which much amufement will arife from their grunting ; and fhe will 
make one of them, who appears of a humorous turn, to iland upright, and 
fpeak naturally as a man : and this one, ferving as the gractofo^ will make 
entertaining jefl:s and comic buffooneries with the ladies, endeavouring to 
fit in their laps, and imitating the playfulnefs of a lap-dog : and, taking a 
fancy for one of them, he will fall in love with her, whom Circe will trans- 
form into a monkey, through anger and jealoufy that the appearance of any 
lady fhould appear to the fwine more beautiful and attradlive than her 
own : from which will refult a pleafant and entertaining allegory, for the 
lady feeing herfelf transformed into a monkey, and great difcord on this 
account enfuing between her and the fwine, will under this metaphor 
point out the punilhment which follows the vices and fenfuality of men ; 
and on the other hand a like allegory, under the metaphor and transfor- 
mation of the lady into a monkey, the degradations which follow thofe 
of women. In the meanwhile, the cavaher who fled the dangers and 
deceits of Circe, having come to the prefence of Ulyffes, and having 
related the mournful fate of his companions, will move him to fuch pity, 
that he will inftantly go to their relief; and, making the land in his boat, 
he will hear a voice, without knowing from whom it proceedeth, and 
feeking the fource of this voice, it will be found to proceed from one of 
thofe cavaliers who, clothed in rugged bark, have been transformed into 
trees, who will exhort him not to proceed farther, nor expofe himfelf to 
the certain danger that threatens him, but that he ihould fly the en- 



lo LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 

chantments of that ifland, originating in the deceptions of Circe, and in 
her magic and impure loves : at which Ulyfles, wondering, will afk him 
who he is, and what was the occafion of fo cruel an enchantment. To 
whom he with deep forrow will anfwer that he was one of the com- 
panions of King Picus, and will relate the tragic and mournful fate 
which had overtaken them and their king, all being, as their final mif- 
fortune, either transformed into trees, or condemned to wander, in the 
fhape of various animals, through the woods. At which Ulyfles, com- 
paffionate and confufed, will refolve to undertake their reftoration as a 
part of the conqueft he was about undertaking ; and fcarcely will he 
have proceeded to put it into execution, when Mercury will be feen 
coming through the air, dazzling with various colours and refle6tions, 
who, as ambaflador from Jupiter, will prefent him with a flower, by 
means of which he will be able to come triumphant out of the adventure 
which he had vowed, and from the fnares and enchantments of Circe : 
to whom Ulyfles will fcarcely have given thanks, when from his prefence, 
cleaving the air, he will return to heaven : and UlyflTes, recovering his 
breath, and thus fecure of fuccefs, will with frefli courage come in fight 
of the beautiful palace, in which will be feen new wonders, fince at the 
difappearance of the throne on which Circe had been feated, under an 
arch in the middle of the porticos and corridors, will be difcovered a 
mofl: beautiful open portal, through which will be feen long and deep 
perfpe6tives, exciting great admiration; and while UlyflTes fl:ands in 
fufpenfe during the carrying out of this prodigy, that follower of his 
who, changed into a fwine, a6i:s the part of the graciofoy will come before 
him, and recognizing him, will flirive to embrace him, and with his 
filthy fnout attempt to kifs him, calling to his companions, who, grunting 
in a comic way, will furround him, making altogether a grotefque 
tableau ; and he, compafllonating their mifery, will carefs them, afking 
the talking fwine to introduce him to the enchantrefs Circe ; and they 
then, fearing greater evil, perceiving her prefence, will fly away, leaving 
UlyflTes alone with her, whom, in an affable manner, the enchantrefs 



INTRODUCTION, ii 

will receive, inviting him to drink, and offering him the fame cup vv^hich 
had been prefented to his companions. UlyiTes will excufe himfelf, 
threatening her, in order that fhe ihould give them their liberty ; and 
fhe, refufmg, will fo provoke the anger and fury of UlyfTes, that he will 
put his hand to his fword ; but, feeing that his threats are of no avail, 
and his fword equally ineite6lual, he will change his anger and fury into 
flatteries and careffes ; and, pretending to be enamoured, will offer to 
dwell with her, and to comply with all her wifhes and defires, provided 
that fhe will reflore his companions to their original fhape, which Circe 
offers to do, and, enamoured of him, embraces him ; and, conducting 
him to his companions, (he will make them wafh in a beautiful fountain, 
the waters of which will reftore them to their original fhape of men, all 
except the graciofo^ who, for their greater pleafure and entertainment, 
will remain transformed, gaining nothing from his ablutions but a ftill 
longer fnout, and the fudden acquifition of a pair of afs's ears ; at which, 
haraffed and enraged, he will indulge in various comic and amufmg 
exprefEons, and will implore Circe to reftore him, and of Ulyffes he 
will afk it, and of his companions in like manner : which fhe will pro- 
mife to do when he has done penance in that fhape for having been 
attracted more by the beauty of the lady transformed into a monkey, 
than by hers. And, matters being thus arranged, there will appear in 
the pond fix barks or floops, commanded and fteered by fix cupids, in 
which Circe will caufe the companions of Ulyffes to enter, afligning to 
each one the lady to whom he is to pay court, and to the graciofo-fwine 
the lady that was transformed into a monkey : and fhe herfelf will enter 
with Ulyffes into hers ; and, finging to the found of various inftruments, 
they will go through the pond, fifhing with rods for frefh fifh, which, 
wherever the tackle is thrown into the water, will nibble at the fly, and, 
being caught by the hook, will be raifed up, plunging and bounding ; 
but the fwine-transformed graciofo, in place of catching frefh fifh, will 
only draw up thofe that are falted and dried, fuch as dog-fifh and hake ; 
and after this comic diverfion the Kttle fleet will form a crefcent, the 



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12 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 



bark of Circe and Ulyfles being in the centre, fhe will command the 
fea, in order to give pleafure to her new lover, to bring forth and ex- 
hibit on its waves the diverfity of fifhes and marine monfters which it 
contains in its womb : at which precept and command the pond will be 
feen filled with a variety of fifhes, great and fmall, which, playing with 
each other, will force up through their mouths and noftrils frequent jets 
of odoriferous water, which, fcattered in fragrant fhowers upon the 
fpecSlators, will difFufe a fweet and agreeable odour around. And at this 
time will come and appear fuddenly upon the pond Virtue, difguifed 
under the form and figure of a female magician, feated upon a great fea- 
tortoife, and feeming to Circe (in confequence of her afTumed difguife of 
a magician) a great friend of hers, fhe will be rejoiced to fee her, and 
will compliment her on her arrival, at which they will all difembark 
upon a flowery lawn in front of the palace, where they will fit down ; 
and then, converfing on various matters, and being much pleafed at 
the vifit of her friend, Circe, to entertain her, will introduce a grotefque 
afTemblage of firens and tritons, who, on the water of the pond, will 
perform a wonderful fort of dance, the like of which has never been feen 
or heard of : at the end of which, they having difappeared, and Circe, 
Virtue, and UlyfTes having refumed their converfation and difcourfe, 
Circe will afk Virtue the reafon that has moved her to leave her fludies 
and magical purfuits to come and vifit her : and fhe will anfwer, that 
the obje61: of her coming is her love for UlyfTes, whom, from the mo- 
ment of his birth, fhe had deflined for herfelf, having experienced from 
him fuch tender refpe61: and attention, which have obliged her to feek 
him, and to come for him, in order to withdraw him from her hands, 
becaufe her great love allowed her no refl, nor confidence in her ancient 
friendfhip with Circe. And the companions of UlyfTes, hearing this 
explanation, wondering and confufed at what had happened, will be 
aflonifhed, and not knowing Virtue under the difguife of a magician, 
will beheve her to be mad; but Circe, laughing, and treating what her 
friend had faid to her as a jeft, will treat her with raillery, notwithfland- 



INTRODUCTION. 



ing which (he, through jealoufy, and to reaflure herfelf, will make 
UlyfTes and his companions perform a mimic tournament on foot, the 
tilting enclofure fuddenly appearing for the occafion : fcarcely has this 
begun, when Virtue, praifmg the fhape, the graceful deportment, the 
a61:ivity and courage of Ulyffes, will caufe great jealoufy to Circe, who 
will fufpend the tournament, caufmg the lifts to difappear, and com- 
manding Virtue on the inftant to depart the ifland ; but fhe will not do 
fo, unlefs fhe can take Ulyffes with her; at which Circe, angry and 
enraged, will make great incantations, fhapes, fpe(Sl:res, and enchant- 
ments to overcome her and to drive her thence, which will produce in 
the air and on the ifland great prodigies and wonderful appearances, 
which will do no injury to Virtue, who will conquer them all ; and 
Circe, finding that (he is powerlefs to fubdue her, will go away in wrath, 
leaving Virtue alone with Ulyffes, who will reveal herfelf to him, re- 
buking him for his way of life, and cenfuring him for his effeminacy, 
afking him if it was he that fhe had conducted out of Greece, and had made 
vi61:orious over the Trojans, and recalling the other glorious achieve- 
ments of Ulyffes. He, grateful, and with his memory reftored, will 
repent, and will promife to follow her, abandoning his vices, which, till 
then, had held him in forgetfulnefs, at which fhe will lead him to the 
fountain, where, beholding himfelf as in a mirror, he will fee himfelf fo 
different from what he was in the days of his valour, that, with a fixed 
determination, he will refolve to leave Circe. At which there will ap- 
pear in the theatre a very old and deformed giant, wearing a venerable 
beard, dreffed in the habit of a hermit, and with a ftaff in his hand, 
whofe prefence will compel Ulyffes to inquire of Virtue who he is, and 
what was his bufinefs with him ; to whom fhe will give anfwer : 
" This is he whom thou art to follow, and whom thou oughteft to con- 
gratulate in order to rife from the abyfs of vices into which thou haft 
fallen." With that Ulyffes will turn to the giant, and afk him to give 
him his prote6i:ion, and to tell him who he is : and the other will affure 
him of it, faying that he is called the Buen Retiro, (the Happy Re- 



14 LOl^E THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 

treat,*) and telling Ulyfles that what is neceffary to obtain for him a place 
in the temple of eternity, and to make his name famous, illuftrating it 
with glorious a6i:ions, is to follow him, the Happy Retreat, becaufe unlefs 
he followed that, he would not be able to renounce vice and love virtue, 
which could only be done by retiring from all that could divert him from 
her. With that Ulyfles, determining to follow the Happy Retreat, 
will embrace Virtue, and being embraced by her, Circe will return in 
defpair, and, feeing Ulyfles embraced by Virtue, will afk him if thefe 
were the attentions, the fond vows, the promifes and flatteries, on 
account of which fhe relied upon his fl:eadfafl:nefs and fidelity : and fhe 
will afk him not to leave her, availing herfelf for that purpofe of great 
threats, mingled with carefles, at which, mocking her, Virtue will fay, 
that not only is fhe powerlefs to fubjugate UlyfTes, but that, for his 
greater triumph, he will take with him all whom that enchanted ifle 
contains, and, for the carrying out of this, it will be fo arranged, that 
the trees will then burfl afunder, and from their trunks and cavities all 
will ifTue forth who have been there confined." 

Love the Greateji Enchantment was firfl printed, in the year 1 641, in 
the fecond volume of the poet's dramas, publifhed by his brother. It 
is thus defcribed : — 

^' El Mayor Encanto Amor^ a fiejia which was reprefented before his 
Majefly on the night of St. John, in the year 1635, on the pond of 
the royal palace of the Buen Retiro." [Segunda parte de Comedias de 
Calderon. Colle6ted by Don Jofe Calderon, his brother. Madrid, 1641.) 

Previous to its reprefentation, however, in 1635, a flill earlier play on 
the fame fubje(Sl: had been produced, to which the date of 1634 has been 
afligned, from an allufion to it in the firfl: a6l of Love the Greateji En- 
chantment^ to which I have more particularly referred where the pafTage 

* " El Buen Retire j"" a pun, doubtlefs, on the name of the palace in the gardens of 
which this fpeftacle was to be exhibited. In the phrafeology of the " Pilgrim's Pro- 
grefs," perhaps it might be tranflated " Giant Good-path." — Translator. 



INTRODUCTION. 



15 



occurs. This drama was called Polyphemus and Circe, and was the united 
work of Mira de Mefcua, Perez de Montalvan, and Calderon. It is 
fuppofed to have been printed at Madrid in 1652, in the fecond part of 
the collection of Comedias de var'ios Autores,^ as would appear from the 
MS. index, by Don Juan Ifidro Fajardo, of all the plays printed in 
Spain to the year 17 16, which is preferved in the National Library of 
Madrid. Of this fecond part, however, there feems to have been two 
diftindt impreffions, the one above mentioned, in 1652, and another in 
1653. ^^ thefe impreffions, no copy of the edition of 1652 is known 
to exift, and that of 1653 ^^^^ ^^^ contain the drama of Polyphemus 
and Circe. A copy, however, has been made up by Senor Hartzenbufch 
from two manufcripts kindly placed at his difpofal by Senor Duran, (the 
editor of the moft complete Romancero that has yet been given to the 
world,) and publifhed by him in the fourth volume of his edition of 
Calderon. t In addition to the curious paper juft given, it may be 
interefting to give an analyfis of this hitherto unknown drama, as a 
further evidence of the care and deliberation with which Calderon 

* It is fingular, as Mr. Ticknor remarks, that of this colle6lIon of the old dramas 
of Spain, which at leaft extended to forty-three volumes, (from the lift of Fajardo, 
above mentioned, it would appear there were forty-feven,) fo little (hould now be 
known. Of thefe volumes, at the date of the publication of his " Hiftory of Spanifh 
Literature" (184.9), Mr. Ticknor himfelfpofTeffed three, namely, the twenty-fifth (Sara- 
gofla, 1633), the thirty-firft (Barcelona, 1638), and the forty-third (SaragofTa, 1650). 
He mentions two others, which he had not feen, namely, the twenty-ninth (Valencia, 
1636), and the thirty-fecond (Saragofla, 1640). In addition to the twenty-fifth (a copy 
of which, as has been already mentioned, is in the pofTefiion of Mr. Ticknor), Senor 
Hartzenbufch mentions four others, the twenty-eighth (Huefca, 1634.), the thirtieth 
(Saragoffa, 1636), the thirty-third (Valencia, 164.2), and the part above defcribed as 
wanting the Polifemoy Circe. It is from the thirtieth volume of this collection he has 
taken the firft fketch of Calderon's Armas de la Hermofura, namely. El Pri'vilegio de 
las Mujeres, which he wrote in conjunftion with Montalvan and Antonio Coello. It 
is given in vol. iv. p. 397, of his edition. Madrid, 1848-50. Tr. 

-j- Comedias de Calderon. Por Don Juan Eugenio Hartzenbufch, vol. iv. p. 413. 



i6 LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 

elaborated thofe dramas, the fubje6ts of which feem to have been 
favourites with himfelf. 

POLYPHEMUS AND CIRCE. 

Written by Do6tor Mira de Mefcua, Do6tor Juan Perez de Montal- 
van, and Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca. 

The firft a6t: is by Mira de Mefcua. The opening fcene, in the 
pofition of the fliip, &c. refembles the correfponding one in Love the 
Greateji Enchantment. It is a faint outline of the complete pi6lure 
painted by Calderon. 

In the tenth fcene Polyphemus quotes Gongora, and feems well read 
in Spanifh poetry.* 

** Un poeta me dijo que en la luna, 

Defde la cumbre defte monte, puedo 

Efcribir mis defdichas con el dedo." — Pp. 416-17. 

The lines of Gongora referred to are — 

" Y en los cielos defde efta roca puedo 
Efcribir mis defdichas con el dedo ? " 

Fabula de Polifemoy Galatea, Stanza 49. f 

The firft a£i: ends with a ftruggle between Love and War for the 
pofTeffion of UlyfTes, as in Calderon's play. The fong in favour of the 
former is fung by the firens, the call to the latter is given by one of the 
Greeks called Turfelino. The refrain is the fame in both plays : UlyiTes 
yields to Love, and is overcome with fleep, as in Love the Greateji En- 
chantment. The experiment which Circe makes ufe of as a teft of his 



* In Montalvan's fpecial Auto on the fame fubjeft, Polyphemus piays on a guitar. 
This Auto of Polifemo^ which Montalvan fubfequently publifhed in his Para Todosy is 
fuppofed to have been written as early as 161 9. 

f Poetas Liricds de Sighs \(i y 17, in Biblioteca de Autores Efpanoles, vol. xxxii. 
p. 462. 



INTRODUCTION. 17 



afFedlion, is to aflume the appearance of a ftatue while he fleeps. 
Ulyfles awakes, and, feeing his miftrefs turned to marble, bewails his 
lofs, and declares that there is nothing now in the palace of Circe that 
can detain him. He rufhes towards the fea, determined to embark ; 
Circe follows, declaring fhe is ftill alive, and rejoiced in her heart at the 
fuccefs of her experiment. 

The fecond a6l is by Montalvan. 

In this a6t Montalvan introduces fome harmonious verfes, in o6lave 
ftanzas, taken from his earlier Auto of PoUfemo^ which, as I have faid, 
was probably written before 1619, but not publifhed till 1632; or, 
as Seiior Hartzenbufch fays, 1633, in the edition of his Para Todos^ 
which appeared at Huefca in that year. Thefe verfes are follov/ed by 
a very fpirited fcene between Polyphemus and Galatea. The dialogue 
is kept up with great livelinefs, each party fcarcely ufmg more than one 
line — a rhetorical forbearance very unufual in Spanifh plays. 

The third a6i: is by Calderon. UlyfTes relates that in confequence 
of his having preferred Irene, one of Circe's ladies, to the enchantrefs 
herfelf, for no other reafon, he would have us believe, but her refem- 
blance to the abfent Penelope, the jealous and indignant Circe had taken 
a very fummary way to put an end to that flirtation, by caufing palace, 
ladies and all, to difappear. Indeed, at the end of the fecond acSt, the 
grated window at which Ulyfles and Irene had been converfmg at the 
moment of this cataflirophe, and of which the thoughtful lady advifed 
her lover to lay hold, is reprefented as flying away, with the hero himfelf 
hanging on. The ftory of Polyphemus then proceeds in the ufual way. 
In this play, the difenthralment of UlyflTes is efFeded by an appeal from 
Acis (the cataftrophe connefted with whom and Galatea takes place 
in the fecond a6t), who comes forth bleeding from the rock which 
Polyphemus had flung upon him, and at whofe fountain Ulyfl^es 
was about to drink. At the departure of the hero from the ifland, 
Circe makes the fame appeal that is given in Love the Greateft En- 
chantment^ occafionally in the fame words. At the end the indulgence 



i8 LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT, 

of the audience is afked for the three poets who had joined in its com- 
pofition. 

It only remains to add that the refemblance, which every one will 
perceive exifts between the opening fcene of Love the Greateji Enchant- 
ment and The Tempeft^ in the pofition of the fhip, the nautical phrafe- 
ology ufed by the feamen, and the jokes of the graciofos and clowns, 
feems to be purely accidental. If Calderon were acquainted with the 
works of his great Englifh predecefTor, and he might eafily have been fo, 
as he was but twenty-three years of age when the firft folio was pub- 
lifhed ; and from the intercourfe then exifting between Spain and England, 
it would not be at all furprifmg that the volume had found its way to 
the Peninfula j he would fcarcely have confined his imitations to this 
one paflage, and perhaps another in his Saher del mal y del h'len (To 
know good and evil), where the idea conveyed in Shakefpeare's famous 
lines — 

" All the world's a ftage, 
And all the men and women merely players," 

is exprefTed by Calderon with almoft equal power in the well-known 
refle6lion commencing, — 

^^ En el teatro del mundo 
Todos fon reprefentantesJ''' 




PERSONS REPRESENTED. 



Ulises. 
Antistes. 
Arquelao. 
polidoro. 

TiMANTES. 

Floro. 

Lebrel. 
Clarin. 

LisiDAS. ^ 

Arsidas. 

Brutamonte, gigante, 

Aquiles. 

Circe. 

Casandra. 

Clori. 

TiSBE. 

SlRENE. 

Flerida. 

Astrea. 
Libia. 

La Ninfa Iris. 
Galatea. 

Griegos, Soldadosde Jrjtdas, Tritones, 
Sir en as. 



Companions of UlyJ/es. 



Ulysses. 
Antistes. 
Archelaus. 
Polydorus. 
Tim antes. 
Florus. 
Lebrel. 
Clarin. 

Lysidas, Prince of Tufcany. 
Arsidas, Prince of Sicily. 
Brutamonte, a giant. 
Shade of Achilles. 
Circe. 
Cassandra. 
Chloris. 
Thisbe. 
Sirene. 
Flerida. 
Astrea. 
Libia. 
Iris. 

Galatea. 
Greek and Sicilian Soldiers, Tritons, 
Sirens, 



y Her ladies, 
I 
J 

j- Her attendants. 

y Nymphs. 



Scene, Sicily. 




LOVE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 



JORNADA I. 

Mar y Costa de Trinacria. 

Suena un clarin, y defcubreje un naviOy 
y en el Ulises, Antistes, Arquelao, 
Lebrel, Polidoro, Tima'ntes,Floro, 
Clarin y otros Griegos. 

Antiftes. 
N vano forcejamos, 
Cuando rendidos a la fuerte 

eftamos. 
Contra los elementos. 
Arquelao. 
Homicidas los mares y los vientos. 
Hoy feran nueftra ruina. 

Tim antes. 
Iza el trinquete. 

Polidoro. 

Larga la bolina. 
Floro. 
Grande tormenta el huracan promete. 

Antiftes. 
J Hola, iza ! 




ACT THE FIRST. 

The Sea and Coast of Sicily. 

A Jhip is difcovered Jlruggling with the 
waves : in it are Ulysses, Antistes, 
Archelaus, Polydorus, Timantes, 
Florus, Lebrel, Clarin, and others. 

Antijles. 
E ftrive in vain. 
Fate frowns averfe, and drives 

us o'er the main 
Before the elements : — 
Archelaus, 
Death wings the wind, and the wild 

waves immenfe 
Will be our graves to day. 

Timantes. 
Brace up the forefail. 

Polydorus. 

Give the bow-line way. 
Florus. 
The rifing wind a hurricane doth blow. 

Antiftes. 
Hoift! 




22 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 


Lehrel. 


Lebrel. 


A la efcota ! 


To the mainfheet ! — 


Clarin, 


Clarin. 


Al chafaldete ! 


Let the clew-lines go ! — 


Vlifes, 


Ulyjfes. 


Jupiter foberano. 


O Sovereign Jove ! 


Que efle golfo en efpumas dejas cano. 


Thou vi^ho this gulf in mountainous 


Yo voto a tu deidad aras y altares. 


foam doft move. 


Si la colera templas deftos mares. 


Altars and facrifice to thee I vow. 




If thou wilt tamethefe angry waters now. 


Antijies. 


Antijies. 


I Sagrado Dios Neptuno, 


God of the Sea, great Neptune ! in def- 


Griegos ofendes a pefar de Juno ? 


pite 




Of Juno's care, why thus the Greeks 




affright ? 


Arquelao, 


Archelaus. 


Caufando efta defmayos 


And fee, the kindling Heavens are all 


El cielo con relampagos y rayos. 


ablaze. 




With angry bolts and lightning-winged 




rays. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


\ Piedad, Baco divino ! 


Son of Silenus, truly called divine ! 


No muera en agua el que ha vivido en 


Save from a watery death thefe lips 


vino. 


that lived on wine ! 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


J Piedad, Momo fagrado ! 


Let not, O Momus ! *tis his latell wifh. 


No el que carne vivio, muera pefcado. 


A man who lived as flelli now die as 




fifh!- 


Timantes. 


Timantes. 


Monumentos de hielos 


This day, thefe waves that round about 


Hoy feran eflas ondas. 


us rife 




Will be our icy tombs : — 


Todos, 


All. 


Piedad, cielos ! 


Have pity, O ye fkies ! — 


Polidoro. 


Polydorus. 


Parece que han oido 


It feems that they have liften'd to our 


Nueftro lamento y mifero gemido. 


prayer — 




Our wild lament that pierced the dark- 




fome air — 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT, 23 


Pues calmaron los vientos. 


Since fuddenly the winds begin to 




ceafe. 


Jrqueiao. 


Archelaus. 


Paces publican ya los elementos. 


Yes, all the elements proclaim a peace : — 


JntiJ}es. 


Antiftes. 


Y para mas fortuna, 


And for our greater happinefs. 


(Que la buena y la mala nunca es una) 


(Since good and evil on each other prefs) 


Ya en aquefte horizonte 


See, on the far horizon's verge 


Tierra enfena la cima de aquel monte 


The golden fummits of the hills emerge 


Corona de efa fierra. 


From out the miil that fhrouds the 




lowlier flrand. 


Timantes. 


Timantes. 


Celages fe defcubren. 


The clouds are fcatter'd now; 


Todos. 


All. 


Tierra, tierra ! 


The land ! the land ! 


Ulifes. 


Vlyjfes, 


Pon en aquella punta. 


Beneath this promontory, which doth 


Que el mar y el cielo, hecho bifagra, junta. 


lie 


La proa. 


A link of ftone betwixt the fea and Iky, 




Turn the tired prow : 


Polidoro. 


Polydorus, 


Ya toca el efpolon la playa. 


The rock bends beetling o'er : — 


Antifies. 


Antiftes. 


Vaya toda la gente a tierra. 


All hands defcend on fhore: — 


Todos. 


All. 


Vaya; 


All hands on fhore ! 


Jntijfes. 


Antiftes. 


Del mar cefo la guerra. 


After the war of waves the air grows 




bland: — 


Ulzfes, 


Ulyfes. 


Vencimos el naufragio. 


Shipwreck we have fubdued. 


Todos, 


All. 


A tierra, a tierra ! 


To land ! to land ! 


\_Llega el bajel y defembarcan todos. 


\_The vejfel anchors and all the 




crew difembark. 


Ulifes. 


Vlyjfes. 


Saluda el peregrino. 


Salute this hofpltable land. 


Que en falado criftal abrio camino. 


Whofe curving fhores like Iheltering arms 




expand 



24 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR, 


La tierra donde llega, 


To clafp us to its breaft : — 


Cuando inconftante 7 naufrago fe niega 


Storm-tofs'd and Ihip-wreck'd we awhile 


Del mar a la inconftancia procelofa. 


may reft 




Nor dread the fea's wild rage, the ftorm- 




wind's wilder mirth ! 


Antifies. 


Antifies. 


\ Salve, y falve otra vez, madre piadofa ! 


Hail ! and thrice hail, O holy mother 




Earth !— 


Arquelao. 


Archelaus. 


Con rendidos defpojos 


To thee land ! our grateful tears and 


Los labios te apellidan, j los ojos. 


fighs 




Breathe from our lips, and tremble from 




our eyes : — 


Clarin, 


Clarin. 


Del mar vengo enfadado ; 


Loathing the tirefome fea, I turn from 


Que no es graciofo el mar, aunque es 


it,— 


falado. 


So much of fait and yet fo little wit ! — 


LebreL 


Lebrel. 


No es aquefo forzofo 


That does not follow, fmce the fait fea 


Que yo no foy falado, y foy graciofo. 


can 




Make a good merman of a merry-man ! — 


Vlifes, 


VWa. 


I Que tierra fera efta ? 


What land is this, what fhore, what 




fheltering creek ? 


Tim antes. 


Timantes. 


I Quien quieres que a tu duda de ref- 


Which of us all can anfwer what you 


puefta. 


feek ? 


Si, fiempre derrotados. 


Since ever driven along the watery wafte 


Mares remotos, climas apartados 


Through diftant feas and climes afunder 


Habemos tantos anos difcurrido. 


placed. 


El rumbo, el norte y el iman perdido ? 


We for fo many years have now been 




toft— 




Our route, our polar ftar, our compafs loft? 


Polidoro. 


Polydorus. 


Pues no nueftras defdichas han cefado ; 


I fear new trials threaten us again ; 


Que el monte, donde ahora has arribado. 


Since from this hill where we have flielter 


No parece habitable 


ta'en. 




The place looks all deferted — hillocks 




piled 



LOVE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT 25 


En lo inculto, intrincado y formidable. 


On woody plains, and heaths untrodden 




rude and wild. 


Jntijfes. 


Antifies. 


En el las mas pequenas 


From this I cannot fee the flighteft trace 


Ruinas, de gente humana no dan fefias. 


Of human dwellings in this lonefome 




place. 


Arquelao. 


Archelaus. 


Solo fe ve de arroyos mil furcado. 


'Tis furrow'd by a thoufand tiny ftreams 


Cuyo turbio criftal defentonado 


Whofe troubled tide fo hoarfe and flimy 


Parece, a lo que creo. 


feems. 


Defperdiciado aborto del Leteo. 


That one could almoft think 




It burft and ilray'd away from Lethe's 




leaden brink. 


Lel^reL 


Lebrel. 


Que habemos dado, temo. 


Worfe than the cave of Polyphemus, 


En otro mayor mal, que el Polifemo. 


here 




A greater evil threatens us I fear : — 


Flora. 


Flams. 


Quejas fon laftimofas y feveras, 


And hark ! that dillant found appears 


Cuantas fe efcuchan, de robuftas fieras. 


the howl 




Of famifh'd beafts that through the 




forefts prowl ; 


Timantes. 


Timantes. 


y fi las copas rufticas miramos 


And if we turn our eyes 


Deftos funeftos ramos. 


Unto the darkfome boughs that hide us 


No pajaros fuaves 


from the fkies. 


Vemos, nodurnas si, agoreras aves. 


No gentle fongfters warble from the trees. 




But hoarfe nodurnal birds of fatal 




auguries. 


Jrquelao. 


Archelaus. 


y entre fus ramos rotos y quebrados 


Sufpended from the boughs, methinks 


Trofeos de guerra y caza eflan colgados. 


I trace [chafe. 




Some broken trophies of the war and 


Polidoro. 


Pol^dorus. 


Todo el fitio es rigor. 


All here is gloomy. 


Flora. 


Flarus. 


Todos es efpanto. 


All is full of fear. 


Jntifies. 


Antijies. 


Todo horror. 


Horror ! 



26 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR, 


Arquelao. 


Archelaus. 


Todo afombro. 


And terror ! 


Timantes. 


Timantes. 


Todo encanto. 


And enchantments drear! 


Lebrel,^ 


Lebrel. 


Abforto de mirar fus fenas quedo. 


At all thefe figns I Hand and gape dif- 


; Creerafme una verdad, que tengo 


may'd — 


miedo ? 


Can you believe it true that I'm afraid ? — 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Si creere, fi es que arguyo. 


Eafily, truly, and for this alone. 


Que por mi corazon fe juzga el tuyo. 


I judge your heart and courage by my 


\_Fan/etodos,y quedan Ulijes y Clarin. 


own. 


• 


[Exeunt all but TJlyJfes and Clarin. 


Vltfes, 


Ulyjfes. 


Pues los dos nos quedamos. 


Since we alone of all our comrades flay, 


Por efta parte penetrando vamos. 


Let us attempt to penetrate this way : 


j Que bofque es de confulion tan rara 


What tangled wood with thorny thickets 


Aquefle que pifamos ! 


Is this we tread ? [blind. 


Clarin, 


Clarin. 


Y aun no para 


And worfe remains behind. 


En efo, pues del trifle obfcuro centro 


For from its central fad obfcurity. 


Suyo, miro falirnos al encuentro 


My frighten'd eyes a fearful fquadron fee 


Un efcuadron de fieras. 


Of banded wild-beafts ilTuing through 


Barbara inculta huefte, que en hileras 


the gloom ; 


Mai formadas embifte 


Hither the favage hoft appears to come. 


A los dos. 


In broken ranks the dreadful foe flocks 

nigh 
To attack us two ! — 




Vlifej. 


Ulyfes. 


Defendamonos (ay trifte !) 


O woe ! then let us die 


El uno al otro. — Pero como es efto ? 


Defending one another ! — Stranger flill. 


No folo a nueftra ofenfa fe han difpuefto. 


They do not feem difpofed to do us ill : 


Pero humildes, poftrados y vencidos. 


But humbled, vanquifh'd, crowdaround, 


Los pechos por la tierra eftan rendidos. 


And with their proflrate breafls falute 


\_Salen animales,y hacen lo que fe va 


the ground. 


diciendo. 


[ The Animals enter and a5i as they are 


Y el Rey de todos ellos. 


dejcribed. 




And fee the King of all the train — 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 



27 



El leon, coronado de cabellos. 

En pie puefto, una vez hacia las peiiaSj 

Y otra hacia el mar, cortes nos hace 

fenas. 

generofo bruto, 

Rey de tanta republica abfoluto, 

1 Que me quieres decir, cuando a la 

playa 
Senalas ? ique me vaya, 

Y que no tale mas el bofque, donde 
Tienes tu imperio ? A todo me re- 

fponde, 
Inclinada la tefta, 
Con halagos firmando la refpuefta. 
Creamos pues al hado ; 
Que un bruto no mintiera coronado. — 
Convoca a gritos fieros 
A nueftros companeros. 
Para que al mar volvamos, 

Y agradecidos el peligro huyamos. 



Clarin. 
Companeros de Ulifes, 
Que difcurris los barbaros paifes 
Defte encantado monte, 
Defamparad fu barbaro horizonte. 

Vlifes. 
Al mar volved, al mar, que triftemente 
Con halago las fieras obediente, 
Cuando fus voces nueftras gentes llaman, 
Quieren quejarfe, y por quejarfe, braman . 



Clarin, 
Todas con manfo eftruendo. 



The lordly Lion crown'd with his own 

mane — 
Standing ere6l, doth beckon courteoufly. 
Now to the rocks, and now unto the 
O generous and noble brute, [fea. 

Of thine own realm fole monarch abfo- 

lute ! [to fhow 

What wouldft thou fay by Teeming thus 
My way to the ftrand ? Is it that I 

fhould go. 
Nor feek to penetrate this myflic wood. 
Where thou doll hold thy court? Oh ! 

I am underftood ! [imperial eye, 
He bends his fovereign head, his proud 
And with carefies llrengthens his 

reply : — 
On fate and on his word let us rely, 
A King — even though of beafts — can 

never lie ! 
With hurried cries of hope and fear 
Convoke our fcatter'd comrades here. 
That to the fea we may return once 

more, [Ihore. 

And grateful fly the dangers of this 

Clarin {^calling). 
Companions of Ulyffes, who 
Roam this favage region through, 
Come, leave this land by fiends poiTeft, 
Come, fly this mountain's magic bread ! 

Vlyjfes. 
To fea ! to fea ! with what a fad aflent 
The wild beafts' voices with our cries 

are blent ! 
With us they call our people o'er and 

o'er, [ing roar ! 

They wifli to warn them, and in warn- 

Clarin. 
With gentle clamour through the woods 

they flee. 



28 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 


Repitiendo las fenas, van huyendo. 

Ulifes. 
Mucho es mi afombro. 


Still making figns and pointing to the fea. 

Ulyfes. 
Great is my wonder. 


Clari?i. 


Clarin. 


Y mi trifteza es mucha. 


Great my mournful fear. 


Ulifes. 
Diofes, I que tierra es ella ? 


Ulyfes. 
What is this land, ye Gods ? — 


Sale huyendo Antistes. 
Antifies. 

Atiende, efcucha : 


[Antistes rujhes in. 
Antiftes. 
Oh ! liften, thou fhalt hear : — 


Entramos en efe monte, 
Ulifes, tus compaiieros. 


We, Ulyffes, thy companions. 
Dared this mountain wild to enter. 


A examinar fus entraiias. 


Its interior to examine, 


A folicitar fu centro. 


To explore its inmoft centre. 


Cuando a las varias fortunas 


For we thought the fickle fortune 


Del mar penfamos que el cielo 


Of the fea at length had ended. 


Nos habia dado amparo. 


And that heaven had given us favour. 


Nos habia dado puerto. 


And the earth a welcome fhelter ; 


Mas ay trifle ! que el peligro 


But, alas ! doth Danger lord it 


Es de mar y tierra dueno ; 


Over land and fea for ever. 


Porque en la tierra y el mar 


Sea and land th' eternal kingdom 


Tiene el peligro fu imperio. 
Digalo alii, coronado 


Ruled by Danger's deathlefs fceptre ; 
There his gloomy throne is builded 


De tantos naufragios ciertos. 


Of unnumber'd fhipwreck'd veflels. 


Y aqui lo diga, cefiido 


Here his widening realm is bounded 


De tantos precifos riefgos : 


By a ring of rifks unended. 


Aunque ni el mar, ni la tierra 


Though nor land nor fea fhould juflly 


No tienen la culpa dellos. 


Bear the blame of thefe excefles. 


Pues el hombre en tierra y mar 


Since on both, the feeds of danger 


Lleva el peligro en si mefmo. 


Man within his own breaft beareth ; 


Por diverfos laberintos, 


Through the labyrinthine pafTes, 


Que labro, artifice dieflro 


Which with carelefs hand Time cleav- 


Sin eftudio 7 fin cuidado. 


eth- 


El defaliiio del tiempo. 


Time the cunning craftfman making 


Difcurrimos efe monte. 


Moft of that which he negledleth. 


Hafta que hallandonos dentro. 


Without feeming toil or eiFort, — 


Vimos un rico palacio. 


In through thefe the mount we enter'd. 


Tan vanamente foberbio. 


And advanced, until with wonder 


Que embarazando los aires. 


A rich palace we beheld there, 

1 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT 29 


Y los montes afligiendo. 


So fuperbly proud and haughty. 


Era para aquellos nube. 


That embarraffing the zephyrs 


Y penafco para eftos. 


And the mountains' fides oppreffing. 


Porque fe daba la mano 


It to thofe a vaft cloud feemeth. 


Con uno y con otro extremo : 


And to thefe a rock as mighty : — 


Pero aunque viciofos eran. 


Since at once to earth and heaven 


La virtud no ellaba en medio. 


Each of its extreme ends reaches ; 


Saludamos fus umbrales 


But unlike the extremes of vices. 


Cortefanamente atentos. 


In its midit no virtue dwelleth. 


Y apenas de nueftras voces 


We, its threfholds fair faluted. 


La mitad nos hurto el eco. 


Courteoufly approaching nearer. 


Cuando de Ninfas hermofas 


And the fwift thief Echo fcarce 


Un tejido coro bello 


Half our ftolen words repeated. 


Las puertas abrio, mollrando 


When a linked choir of nymphs 


Apacible y lifonjero. 


Wide its ample doors extended. 


Que habia de fer fu agafajo 


Showing in their fmiling looks 


De nuellros males confuelo. 


Such a fweet and gracious prefence. 


De nueftras penas alivio. 


That we thought at length had come. 


De nueftras tormentas puerto. 


After all our toils, refrefhment. 


Mintio el defeo ; j mas cuando 


After all our evils, good. 


Dijo verdad el defeo ? 


And a haven after tempefts : — 


Detras de todas venia. 


Falfely fpoke our wifhes thus ; 


Bien como el dorado Febo, 


But, ah ! when have wifhes ever 


Acompanado de eftrellas. 


Spoke the truth ? Behind them all. 


Y cercado de luceros. 


Like the golden fun attended 


Una muger tan hermofa. 


By the morning ftars, and girt 


Que nos periuadimos ciegos, 


Round with rofy eaftern ether. 


Que era, a envidia de Diana, 


Came a woman, ah ! fo fair. 


La diofa deftos defiertos. 


That our dazzled eyes believed her 


Efta pues nos pregunto, 


(To Diana's envy fure) 


Quienes eramos ; y habiendo 


The fole goddefs of thofe deferts : — 


Informadofe de pafo 


She inquired of us, at length. 


De los infortunios nueftros. 


Who we were : and when was ended 


Cautelofamente humana. 


The brief outline of our woes. 


Mando fervir al momento 


She, with purpofe well diffembled. 


A fus Damas las bebidas 


Order'd her attendant dames 


Mas generofas, haciendo 


To fupply us with whatever 


Con urbanas ceremonias 


Generous and refrefhing drinks 


Politico el cumplimiento. 


We in our condition needed. 



30 



EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 



Apenas de fus licores 

El veneno admitio el pecho, 

Cuando corrio al corazon, 

y en un inftante, un momento, 

A delirar empezaron, 

De todos los que bebieron, 

Los fentidos, tan mudados 

De lo que fueron primero. 

Que no folo la embriaguez 

Entorpecio el fentimiento 

Del juicio, porcion del alma, 

Sino tambien la del cuerpo ; 

Pues poco a poco extinguidos 

Los proporcionados miembros, 

Fueron mudando las formas. 

\ Quien vio tan raro portento ? 

I Quien vio tan extrano hechizo ? 

I Quien vio prodigio tan nuevo ? 

I Y quien vio, que, liendo hermofa 

Una muger con extremo. 

Para hacer los hombres brutos, 

Ufafe de otros remedios, 

Pues deflas transformaciones 

Es la hermofura el veneno ? 

Cual era ya racional 

Bruto, de pieles cubierto ; 

Cual, de manchas lalpicado 

Fiera con entendimiento ; 

Cual lierpe armada de conchas, 

Cual de agudas puntas lleno, 

Cual animal mas immundo : 

Y todos al fin a un tiempo 

Articulaban gemidos, 

Penfando que eran acentos. 

La magica entonces dijo : 

" Hoy vereis, cobardes Griegos, 

De la manera que Circe 

Trata cuantos pafageros 

Aqueflos umbrales tocan." — 



Greeting us the while with all 
Courteous geftures and addrefTes. 
Scarcely of thefe poifon'd drinks 
Had the mouth received the eflence. 
When it reach'd the very heart ; 
So that quickly, in my prefence, 
Strange delirium feized on all ' 
Who had drunk what they prefented. 
So that the fwift drunkennefs 
Not alone benumb'd the fenfes. 
Or obfcured the-reafon, part 
Of the immortal foul, but even 
Reach'd the very frame itfelf; 
So that the well-moulded members 
Gradually began to lofe 
Their fix'd outline and prefentment. 
Who e'er faw fo llrange a portent ? 
Who bewitchment fo demented ? 
Who a prodigy fo new ? — 
And who faw too this extremer 
Wonder, that a woman deck'd 
With fuch charms as fhe pofFefTes, 
If fhe wifh'd to make men brutes. 
Should have other means invented. 
When fo well for fuch transformings 
Beauty's poifonous power fucceedeth ? 
One, though keeping reafon ftill, 
Seem'd a rough-ikinn'd beaftuntether'd ; 
One, with ftain'd and fpotted hide, 
Seem'd a brute with human fenfes ; 
This a ferpent arm'd with fcales, 
That by prickly llings protedled ; 
This became an animal 
Moft unclean, and all together 
Utter'd howls and cries, believing 
They were words that they accented. 
Then the fair magician faid, 
" Coward Greeks, this day's experience 
Teacheth you how Circe treats 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 31 


Yo, que por fer el que haciendo 


Every traveller who fteppeth 


Eftaba la relacion 


From his fhip upon thefe fhores." 


De nueftros varios fucefos. 


I, that I might be the bearer 


Aun no habia al labio dado 


Of this newer, ftranger phafe 


El vafo, el peligro viendo. 


Of the fate that dogs us ever. 


Sin que reparara en mi 


Though the cup was at my lips. 


Circe, corn ; que en efefto. 


Seeing what a danger threaten'd. 


El que fe fabe librar 


Fled ere Circe was aware. 


De los venenos mas fieros 


For in truth the only fecret 


De una hermofura, es quien folo 


Antidote by which to efcape 


Niega los labios a ellos. 


Beauty's poifon'd influences. 


Efto en fin me ha fucedido. 


Is to never truft the lips 


y vengo a avifarte dello. 


Even to touch what fhe prefenteth. 


Porque defta Esfinge huyamos. 


This is my unhappy tale. 


I Pero donde podra el cielo 


And of this I come to tell thee. 


Librarnos de una muger 


That we may this fair Sphinx fly. 


Con belleza y con ingenio ? 


But fly whither? fince the heavens 




Scarce can fave us from a woman. 




Ah ! fo lovely and fo clever ! 


Vlifes. 


Vlyffes. 


I Cuando vengada eftaras. 


Venus, cruel goddefs fair, 


injufta deidad de Venus ! 


When wilt thou enough avenge thee 


De Grecia ? { cuando tendran 


Upon Greece ? Ah ! when will be 


Divinas coleras medio ? 


Thy divine difpleafure lefl'en'd ? 


Antijies. 


Antifles. 


No en laftimofos gemidos 


Let us not in mournful fighs 


La ocafion embaracemos. 


Lofe the occafion chance prefenteth 


Que tenemos de librarnos : 


Of eifedling our efcape : — 


Al mar volvamos huyendo. 


Better feek the fea's rude ftielter. 


Vlifes. 


Vljffes. 


I Como, habemos de dejar 


How ! and can we leave them here, 


Afi a nueftros companeros ? 


Our companions thus deferted ? 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Perdernos, feiior, nofotros. 


But to lofe ourfelves, my lord. 


No es alivio para ellos. 


Will, methinks, but little ferve them. 


Vlifes. 


Vlyffes. 


Juno, fi en defprecio tuyo 


Juno, if through fcorn of thee 


Venus ofende a los Griegos, 


Venus thus the Greeks opprefles ; 


I Como tu no los defiendes. 


Why, refenting this her fcorn. 



32 EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR. 


Quejofa de tii defprecio ? 


Doll thou not in turn defend them? 


Acuerdate, que, ofendida 


Oh ! remember when thou wert 


De Paris, a nueftro acero 


Wroth with Paris, to avenge thee. 


Le fiafte tu venganza : 


Thou didll trull thee to our fwords : — 


Acuerdate, que fangrientos 


And that bloody deed remember, 


Por ti abrafamos a Troya, 


How it was for thee we burn'd 


Cuyo no apagado incendio 


Ilium down, whofe living embers 


Hoy en padrones de humo 


Raife red monuments offmoke 


Ella en cenizas ardiendo. 


O'er its afhes Hill unquenched ; 


Si, por haberte vengado. 


If for wreaking thy revenge. 


Tantos males padecemos. 


Such unnumber'd ills have centred 


Remedianos, Juno bella, 


All in us, O Juno fair. 


Contra la deidad de Venus. 


Againil Venus be our helper ! 


[ Tocan chirimiasy y fale en un arco la 


\_A found of clarions is heard, and the 


Ninfa Iris, j canta la Mujica dentro. 


nymph Iris appears in a rainbow, voices 




are heard finging within. 


Mufua, 


Song within. 


Iris, Ninfa de los aires. 


Iris, lovely nymph of air. 


El arco defpliega bello. 


Now her beauteous bow extendeth. 


Y menfagera de Juno, 


And, fwift melTenger of Juno, 


Rafga los aznles velos. 


Rends the azure veil of heaven. 


Iris {canta). 


Iris {Jtngs). 


Ya la obedezco. 


I, the glad-obeying bearer 


Y batiendo las alas. 


Of good tidings, float along. 


Rompo los vientos. 


Parting v^^ith my wings the ether. 


Vl'ifes. 


Ulyjfes. 


Linea de purpura y nieve. 


Curved lines of purpled fnow. 


Nube de rofa y de fuego. 


Clouds of fire and rofe-hues blended. 


Verde, roja y amarilla. 


Green and red, and golden yellow. 


Nos deflumbran a fus reflejos. 


Dazzle us with their reflexes. 


Antijles. 


Antijles. 


I Que hermofo rafgo corrido 


What fair llreak of light; is this. 


En el papel de los cielos. 


That, from heaven's blue walls projeded. 


Bandera es de paz ? 


Seems the flag of peace ? 


unjes. 


Uhjes. 


Y en el 


And, lo ! 


Efta la Ninfa pendiendo, 


In it is the nymph fufpended. 


Embajatriz de las diofas. 


She who is embaffadrefs 


Reina de dos elementos. — 


From the Goddefles, and regent 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 33 


Iris, bellilima Ninfa, 


Of two feparate elements : — 


Si tu refpuella merezco, 


Iris, lovely nymph, if ever 


I Que, dichofa, vas bufcando ? 


I thy anfwer have deferved. 


I Que, infelice, vas huyendo ? 


Say, happy, whom thou feekeft ? 




Say, unhappy, whom thou fleell ? 


Iris {cant a). 


Iris {fings). 


A tus fortunas atenta. 


thou never conquer'd Greek ! 


nunca vencido Griego, 


Thou whofe fate is ever prefent 


Juno tu amparo difpone. 


To great Juno's thoughtful care. 


Y yo de fu parte vengo. 


Unto thee fhe now has fent me. 


Efte ramo, que te traigo. 


See this floral branch I bear 


De varias flores cubierto. 


Gemm'd with buds that Flora tended. 


Hoy contra Circe fera 


It will be the antidote 


Triaca de fus venenos. 


Againft Circe's poifon'd fecrets, — 


{^Deja caer un ramillete. 


\She lets fall a bunch of flowers. 


Toca con el fus hechizos. 


Touch with it her magic fpells. 


Defvaneceranfe luego. 


They will vanilh, if thou yieldeft 


Como al amor no te rindas : 


Not to love's more potent charm : — 


Que con avifarte dello. 


With this parting hint I leave thee. 


Ya la obedezco. 


I, the glad-obeying bearer 


Y batiendo las alas. 


Of good tidings, float along. 


Rompo los vientos. 


Parting with my wings the ether. 


To da la Mujlca. 


Chorus of voices within. 


Y batiendo las alas. 


See 1 the glad-obeying bearer 


Rompo los vientos. 


Of good tidings floats along. 




Parting with her wings the ether. 


\Tocan chirimias, y defaparece 


[The clarions found, and the rainbow 


el arco y la Ninfa. 


and Nymph difappear. 


UliJ'es. 


Vlyffes. 


Hermofo allento de Juno, 


Sweet-fent breath from Juno's lips, 


No defvanezcas tan prefto 


Ah ! do not fo foon difmember 


Tanto aparato de eftrellas, 


Such a glorious gleam of ftars. 


Tanta pompa de luceros. 


Such a crimfon cloud of creilets. 


Efpera, detente, aguarda. 


Oh 1 detain thee, Men, ilay. 


Que te facriiique el pecho 


Till at leaft my breaft prefent thee 


Ellas lagrimas, que lleves 


With thefe facrificial tears. 


En feiial de rendimiento. 


Of my feelings the mute emblems. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Ya las efparcidas luces 


See, the fcatter'd lights retire, 



34 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR, 


Va doblando y recogiendo. 


Now outgleaming, now condensed 


Haftaperderfe de villa. 


Till they wholly fade away 


Por ias campaiias del viento. 


On the far-off plains of heaven ! 


vnjes. 


Vlyjfes. 


Ya no hay que temer de Circe 


Now I have no caufe to fear 


Los encantos, pues ya veo 


Circe's magic rites, defended 


Tan de mi parte los hados. 


As I am by friendly fates. 


Tan en mi favor los cielos. 


And by favouring ikies protedled. 


A fus palacias me guia. 


To her palace lead the w" ay. 


Verafme veneer en ellos 


Thou wilt fee me there defend me 


Sus hechizos, y librar 


'Gainft her forceries, and fet free 


A todos mis compaiieros. 


My companions from their fetters. 


Antiftes. 


Antifles. 


No es menefter que te guie 


Need there's none that I fhould lead thee 


A fus ojos ; que ella, haciendo 


To her prefence, fince fhe entereth 


Salva a tus peligros, fale 


Here herfelf, with thoufand cymbals 


Al Ton de mil inftrumentos. 


Greeting thee and thy diftreffes. 


Aparece el Palacio de Circe. 


The Palace of Circe appears. 


Salen los Miificos cantando^ y defpues 


Muficians enter finging and playing, fol- 


Circe, Casandra, Tisbe, Clori 


lowed by Circe, Cassandra, Thisbe, 


y AsTREA, que trae un -jafo en una 


Chloris, Astrea, who carries a gob- 


falvilla, y Libia una toalla. 


let on a faher, and Libia, bearing a 




napkin. 


Mil fie a. 


Song. 


En hora dichofa venga 


Be the hour propitious when 


A los palacios de Circe 


To the palace-halls of Circe 


El fiempre invencible Griego, 


Comes the ever-vi6lor Greek, 


El nunca vencido Ulifes. 


The invincible Ulyffes. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


En hora dichofa venga 


Be the hour propitious when 


Hoy a efta palacio hermofo 


To this beauteous palace here 


El Griego mas generofo. 


Comes the nobleil Greek that e'er 


Que vio el fol, donde prevenga 


Has the fun feen amongft men ; 


Blando albergue, y donde tenga 


Here fhall he enjoy again 


Dulce hofpedage, y atento 


Sweet repofe, and rapture find. 


A fus fortunas, contento 


And attention the moll kind. 


Pueda en la tierra rriunfar 


Since in triumph cometh he 


De la colera del mar. 


From the anger of the fea, 


y de la fana del viento. 


And the raging of the wind. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT 35 


Felice pues fuefe el dia. 


May the day thrice happy fhine 


Que eilos pielagos fulco. 


When he plough'd thefe waves around. 


Felice fuefe el que hallo 


Be it happy when he found 


Abrigo en la patria mia, 


Shelter in this realm of mine : 


Y felice la ofadia, 


Be that courage call'd divine. 


Con que ya veneer prefuma 


With which he in peace doth come 


En tranquila paz, en fuma 


Now to tafte the joys of home. 


Felicidad inmortal. 


He who lately hath fubdued 


Efe monllruo de crillal, 


This cruel cryflal monfter rude. 


Sierpe efcamada de efpuma. 


This azure ferpent fcaled with foam. 


Que yo al cielo agradecida. 


Gratefully, with glowing breaft. 


Pues ya mis venturas fe. 


Do I thank the Gods for this. 


De tanto huefped dare 


That they crown my life with blifs. 


Parabienes a mi vida ; 


Giving me fo great a gueft : — 


Y afi, a tus plantas rendida. 


Therefore have I hither preft 


Con aplaufos diferentes. 


Thus to throw me at thy feet, 


Vengo a recibir tus gentes. 


Thus melodioufly to greet 


Hurtando en ecos fuaves 


Thy approach with fongs, whofe words 


Las claufulas a las aves. 


Seem the notes of warbling birds. 


Los compafes a las fuentes. 


Or the fountains' murmurings fweet. 


Y porque al que en mar vivio. 


And fince dwellers on the fea 


Lo que mas en el le obliga 


'Mid each moment's mifery. 


A fentir, es la fatiga 


Feel of all their ills the woril 


De la fed, que padecio. 


Is the opprelTive pang of thirfl — 


{l Quien fed en tanta agua vio ?) 


(Can thirfl: 'mid fo much water be ?) 


A traerte aqui fe atreven 


Hither to the ocean's brink— 


Los aplaufos, que me mueven, 


(By this zeal, O wanderer, think 


(En fenal de cuan piadofo 


How I value thy furviving !) 


Es mi afedlo) el generofo 


Have I brought thee the reviving 


Nedlar, que los diofes beben. 


Nedtar that the great Gods drink. 


Bebe, y iin pavor alguno 


Drink, and without any fear 


Brinda a la gran mageftad 


Pledge the fovereign facrednefs 


De Jupiter, la beldad 


Of high Jove, the lovelinefs 


De Venus, ciencias de Juno, 


Of fair Venus, Neptune's fphere. 


De Marte armas, de Neptuno 


Juno's knowledge, the fevere 


Ondas, de Diana honor, 


Huntrefs Nymph who rules the grove. 


Flores de Flora, efplendor 


Flora's flowers, the beams that move 


De Apolo ; y por varios modos, 


Round Apollo's golden throne. 


Porque en uno aliften todos. 


Or, to blend all praife in one. 



36 EL MATOR ENCJNTO AMOR, 


Bebe y brinda al dios de Amor. 


Drink and pledge the God of Love. 


Vlijes. 


UhJes, 


Bellifima cazadora. 


Beauteous huntrefs, thou that makeft 


Que en efte opaco horizonte, 


All this black horizon bright, 


Siendo noche todo el monte. 


Flooding all the darkfome night 


Todo el monte haces aurora. 


Of this mountain's vault opaqueft 


Pues no amanecio, hafta ahora 


With the dawn that thou awakelt. 


Que te VI, la luz en el. 


Since thy face its orient is, — 


Admite rendido y fiel 


Oh ! receive fubdued, fubmifs. 


Un peregrino del mar. 


A poor pilgrim of the fea 


Que hallo piadofo al pefar. 


Who in grief finds fympathy. 


Que hallo a la dicha cruel. 


Cruelty in feeming blifs. 


Efa nave derrotada, 


Our difrupted bark that there 


Que con tanta fed anhela, 


Gapes with thirft, and ftranded lies. 


Pez, que por las ondas vuela, 


Fifh that through the water flies. 


Ave, que en los aires nada. 


Bird that fwimmeth through the air, 


A tu deidad confagrada. 


Confecrated, as it were. 


Vidtima ya fin ejemplo. 


Unto thee, fair nymph divine. 


De tus aras la contemplo. 


We to-day to thee refign ; 


Pues aqui fe ha de quedar 


Viftim-like it muft remain 


Por trofeo de tu altar. 


As a trophy in thy fane. 


Por defpojo de tu templo. 


As a relic at thy fhrine. 


\Llegan Libia y Astrea. 


[Libia and Astrea advance. 


El neftar, con que has brindado 


And this ne6lar which you drink 


Mi feliz venida, aceto. 


To my happy coming here. 


Aunque temor y refpeto 


I accept, but with a fear 


Me han fufpendido y turbado 


Mingled fo with awe, I Ihrink 


Tanto, que de recatado. 


But to touch the goblet's brink ; 


No me atrevo a tus favores, 


Terror even my thirft o'erpowers. 


Sin que otros labios mejores 


Worthier lips than thofe of ours 


Lifonjeen tus agravios : 


Should the draught a goddefs lips 


Y afi, antes que con los labios. 


Tafte, and thus before the lips 


Hare la falva con flores. 


I falute it with thefe flowers. 


[ Mete el ramillete en el vafo. 


{He applies the flowers to the goblet. 


yjalefuego. 


from which fire ijfiues. 


Aftrea. 


Aftrea, 


En fuego el agua encendio. 


Fire from water flaming high ! 


Libia, 


Libia, 


I Que es lo que mis ojos ven ? 


Can my eyes believe this true ? 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 37 


Circe. 


Circe. 


I Quien, cielos airados, quien 


Who, angry heavens ! who 


Mas ha fabido que yo ? 


Deeper lore has learn'd than I ? 


Ulifes. 


Ulyjfes. 


Quien tus encantos vencio 


One, a mightier deity. 


Deidad fuperior ha lido ; 


Who thy charms hath all fubdued ; — 


Y pues a. tiempo he venido. 


By my vengeful arm purfued 


Que a tantos vengar efpero. 


Thou the atoning ftroke fhalt feel, 


Veras, magica, elle acero 


Sorcerefs, thou fhalt fee this fteel 


En tu purpura tefiido. 


With thy crimfon blood imbued. 


[Saca la efpada. 


l^Draws his /word. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Aunque llego a merecer 


Though by me it is confefl 


La muerte, es bien que te afombre. 


That I merit death from thee. 


Que no es vi6loria de un hombre 


Still to a man, no viftory 


El matar a una muger. 


Is it to pierce a woman's breaft ! 


Valor, tan hecho a veneer. 


Valour hath a nobler teft 


No ha de fer, no, mi homicida. 


Than the murderous ftroke inhuman — 


Rendida tienes mi vida : 


'Tis to fpare a proftrate foeman ; — 


Luego de tu acero hoy 


To fubdue is not to flay. 


Dos veces fegura efloy. 


Doubly fafe am I to-day 


Por muger, y por rendida. 


In being conquer'd and a woman. 


Ulijes. 


Ulyfes. 


Por rendida, y por muger 


Then for being thus o'erpower'd. 


Darte la muerte no quiero ; 


Likewife for the form you wear. 


Vida tienes ; mas primero 


I confent your life to fpare. 


Que la vaina vuelva a ver 


But before I flieathe my fword. 


La cuchilla, has de traer 


On the fpot muft be reftored 


Mis compaiieros aqui. 


My companions fafe and free. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Efo y mas hare por ti. — 


That and more I'll do for thee : — 


Oid, racionales fieras. 


Reafon-bearing wild beafts, hear ! 


En vueflras formas primeras 


In your proper fliapes appear. 


Trocad las formas que os di. 


Changing thofe were given by me ! 


]^Sale cada uno de por si. 


[All the followers of Ulysses enter 




one after the other. 


Timantes. 


Timantes. 


I Que es lo que me ha fucedido 


What a ftrange delufive dream 


Efte rato que he foiiiado ? 


Slumbering fancy round me wrought ! — 



38 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 


Polidoro. 


Polydorus. 


En un leon transformado 


In my lethargy methought 


Mi letargo me ha tenido. 


That a lion I had been ! 


Floro. 


F lor us. 


J Que ageno de mi fentido 


What a frenzy came to fcreen 


Me ha ufurpado un frenefi ! 


Reafon's light and nature's law^s ! 


Arquelao. 


Archelaus. 


\ Gracias a Dios, que te vi. 


Thanks to Heaven ! the cloud with- 


O campo azul criftalino ! 


draws. 




And I fee the azure fky ! 


LebreL 


LebreL 


Vive Dios ! que fui cochino. 


Bleft be Jove ! a hog was I, 


Y aun me foy \o que me fui. 


And I am juft what 1 was ! 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Ya libres tus gentes ves. 


All thy people now are free. 


Ulifes, 


Vlyffes. 


Y ya aqui no hay que efperar. — 


Let us hence, my friends, away ! 


i Alto, amigos, a embarcar ! 


Quick ! embark ; make no delay ! 


T^imantes, 


Timantes. 


A todos nos da tus pies 


At thy feet permit that we 


Por efla ventura. 


Kneel to thank thee. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Pues 


Since of me 


Tan feguro eftas de mi. 


Now all fear were worfe than weak. 


No te aufentes, no, de aqui. 


Let me afk you not to feek 


Sin que Uegue a faber yo 


Yonder wave, until I know 


Mas defpacio, quien vencio 


More of him who has laid low 


Mis encantos. 


My enchantments. 


Vlifes. 


Vlyffes. 


Oye. 


Liften ! 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Di. 


Speak ! 


Vlifes. 


Vlyffes, 


Si caben tantos fucefos 


If fuch ftrange adventure can 


En el coto de unas voces : 


By a fingle voice be fpoken : — 


La fertil Grecia es mi patria, 


Fertile Greece my country is. 


Y Ulifes mi propio nombre ; 


As UlyfTes there they know me ; 


Aunque inclinado a las letras. 


Though inclined to letters firft. 


Militares efcuadrones 


Martial camps and crowds I followed. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 



39 



Segui ; que en mi fe admiraron 

Efpada y pluma conformes. 

Cerque a Troya, y rendi a Troya : 

No me permitas que torne 

A la memoria fus ruinas, 

Bafta que Venus las llore. 

Heredero de las armas 

De Aquiles fui ; porque logren. 

Si dueno no tan valiente, 

Dueiio a lo menos tan noble. 

Al mar me entregue, penfando 

Volver a mi patria, donde 

Trocara el belico eftruendo 

A regalados favores. 

Engaiiome mi efperanza, 

Mintiome mi amor, burlome 

Mi defeo. j O cuanto facil 

Su dicha imagina el hombre ! 

Venus, del Griego ofendida. 

Mis Venturas defcompone ; 

Que es, aunque diofa, muger. 

En quien duran los rencores. 

La carcel abrio a los vientos. 

Para mi agravio veloces ; 

Que para mis efperanzas 

Aun fueran los vientos torpes. 

Ellos, que airados embillen. 

La fragil armada rompen, 

Y yo turbado perdi 

Con la confufion el norte. 

Huefped vivi de Neptuno 

Seis alios, y por falobres 

Campaiias de agua, fofpecho. 

Que he dado una vuelta al orbe. 

Entre Caribdis y Scila 

Me vi, y a las dulces voces 

Del golfo de las Sirenas 

Balilifco fui de bronce. 

Llegue al pie del Lilibeo, 



Since in me the fword and pen 

Woke in turn the fame refponfes, — 

I laid feige to Troy, by me 

Was the Trojan city conquer'd ; 

Little need of memory now 

To go o'er that famous ftory ; 

'Tis enough its proud walls fell 

And that Venus weepeth o'er them. 

I became, by public voice. 

Of Achilles' arms the owner, 

Since they needed a new lord 

If not braver, ftill as noble ; — 

Trufting to the fea, I thought 

Soon my country to recover. 

Where I hoped, inftead of Heel, 

Arms of fondnefs would enfold me. 

Hope deceived me, love fpoke falfely. 

Fond defire delufive mock'd me. 

Oh ! how eafily doth man 

Dream of joy from doubtfuleft omens ! 

Venus, wrathful with the Greeks, 

All my plans, my fchemes diforder'd — 

Since a goddefs though Ihe be, 

Woman-like her rage fhe fondles — 

She the prifon of the winds 

For my quick dellrudlion open'd ; 

Swift were they to do me wrong. 

For my hopes {o dead and torpid. 

On my frail armada foon 

Burft they forth with rage ungovern'd. 

So that I, confufed, overwhelm'd 

With amazement, loft the pole-ilar ; 

Six years lived I Neptune's gueft. 

And his fait feas failing over, 

Muft in that time I fufpedl 

Have encompafsed the whole earth. 

Between Scylla and Charybdis 

I beheld me, and a bronzed 

Bafiliik grew to the fy ren's fong. 



40 EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR. 


Efe gigante, que opone 


Though they fang their fweeteft, fofteft ; 


Al cielo fus puntas, fiendo 


Then I came unto the foot 


Excelfa pira de flores. 


Of Lilyboeum, which oppofes 


Donde fui de Polifemo 


Its gigantic mountain-peaks 


Mifero cautivo, y donde 


To the heavens, and crown'd with rofes 


Con fu muerte refcate 


Seems a pyramid of flowers. 


Mi vida de fus prifiones. 


Where I was awhile the hopelefs 


El tragico fin vengando 


Captive thrall of Polyphemus, 


De Acis, generofo joven. 


Till my prifon-doors I open'd 


Y la hermofa Galatea, 


By his death ; and fo preferving 


Hija de Nereo y Doris, 


Life and limb, the felf-fame moment 


Que, lagrimas de un penafco. 


By the felf-fame flroke avenging 


Al mar en dos fuentes corren, 


Acis' tragic end, young lover. 


Cuando .... Mas deber no quiero 


And the beauteous Galatea, 


Tan poco a hazana tan noble. 


Child of Nereus and of Doris, 


Que la delluzca en contarla. 


Who, the fwift tears of a rock. 


Prefumiendo que la ignores. 


Roll twin fountains to the ocean ; — 


Bafta decir, qup feguro 


There .... but I would wiih to fhow 


De fus caftigos atroces, 


More refpedl to a deed fo noble 


Tuvimos por agradables 


Than to fpoil it by relating. 


De los vientos los rigores. 


Thinking that it was forgotten.* 


Porque tan airados fueron, 


'Tis enough to fay that fafe 


Que nos trajeron adonde 


From his dread atrocious torments 


El rigor de una muger 


We were wafted by the winds. 


Venciefe al rigor de un hombre ; 


Pleafant now, but with their former 


Pues venimos donde tu 


Anger wing'd, fince us they bore 


Magicas transformaciones 


Where the rigour of a woman 


Ufas ; llorando lo digan 


All man's rigour triumphs o'er, 


Efas fieras y efos robles. 


Since we came where thou performell 


Y afi, pues tan generofas 


Magic metamorphofes : — 


Deidades mas fuperiores 


Weeping let thefebeaft-fliapes own them. 


Me afeguran, volvere. 


And the trees of this ftrange foreft. 


Huyendo de tus rigores. 


Now lince more indulgent powers 


* Alluding to the drama of Polifemo y Circe, 


which Calderon wrote in conjundlion with Mira 


de Mefcua and Perez da Montalvan. It is the or 


iginal draft of El Mayor Encanto Amor^ and having 


been adled the year preceding that in which the 


latter drama was brought out (1635), was ftill in 


the memory of the audience. See Hartzenbufch 


's " Calderon," vol. iv. pp.413 and 669, and, for 


an analyfis of it, the introdudtion to this tranflatic 


)n of El Mayor Encanto Amor, p. 16. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 41 


A quebrantar los criftales 


And divinities more potent 


De efe pielago, que fobre 


ReafTure me, once again. 


Sus efpaldas tantos anos . 


Flying from thy deeds of w^onder, 


Huefped me admitio. Defcoge 


I fhall break the cryllal glafs 


furto de]fin, que vuelas, 


Of this fea, upon whofe lh.oulders 


Varado nebli, que corres. 


I, an outcaft, have been carried 


Las alas, porque otra vez 


Many a year. Be then unfolded. 


La plata del agua cortes. 


Flying dolphin anchor'd there — 


con la quilla la rices. 


Stranded-falcon fo fwift-footed. 


con el buque la entorches. 


Thy white wings, for thou once more 


Torne pues al albedrio 


Murt cut through the filver-molten 


De aire y mar la nave, y torne 


Surface of the fea, thy prow 


A llevarme donde fuere 


Dafhing up the curling foam-wreaths. 


La voluntad de los diofes. 


And thy keel wave- woven braid. 




Give then, give the fhip the open 




Choice of fea and air, that I 




Borne on it may thus difcover 




Where the Gods defire I go. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Retorico Griego, a quien 


Eloquent-tongued Greek King whom 


Efe efcollo crillalino. 


Yonder rippling realm of cryftal. 


Efe penafco de nieve. 


Yonder liquid hills of fnow. 


Efa campana de vidrio 


Yonder plains of glaffy glitter. 


Naufrago huefped te tuvo 


Have a Ihipwreck'd gueil detain'd 


Tantos anos, pues, vencidos 


Such a length of years : fince hither, 


Los hados, llegas, trayendo 


Conquering adverfe fate, thou haft come. 


Aquefas flores contigo. 


Bearing thefe divine flowers with thee. 


Que fon antidoto hermofo. 


Which are beauteous antidotes. 


Que fon conjuro divino 


Which are god-fent exorcifms. 


Contra mortales venenos. 


Againft deadly poifon'd draughts. 


Contra magicos hechizos : 


Againft magical bewitchments. 


No tan prefto a peinar vuelvas 


Do not fly fo quickly back 


Al mar los cabellos rizos. 


To outcomb the foam -white frizzled 


Que canos y ajados fon 


Locks of ocean, which, though tofs'd 


Hermofos con defalino ; 


To and fro in wild-trefs'd whitenefs. 


Deja defcanfar las ondas. 


Wear a beauteous negligence : — 


Y efe bajel, que al abrigo 


Let the waves repole a little. 


De dos montes furto yace. 


And that bark which in the fliade 


Permite, que agradecido 


Of two hills at anchor lieth, — 



42 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR, 


A la piedad de los cielos. 


Grant that, Ihowing thus thy thanks 


De los hados al arbitrio. 


To the heavens for their late pity. 


Blanda, y no penofamente 


For their mercy, to the fates. 


Bata las alas de lino. 


It may beat its wings of linen 


En tanto que te reparas 


Tranquilly, without fatigue. 


De aquel pafado peligro. 


Whilft thou doft repair a little 


Que derrotado te trajo 


The eiFedls of that late danger 


A aqueflos montes altivos. 


Which had flung thee almoft Ihipwreck'd 


Y para que fepas cuanto 


At the foot of thofe tall cliffs. 


Afombro es el que has vencido. 


And, that thou mayft know the mighty 


Darte relacion de mi 


Terror whom thou haft fubdued. 


Efte inftante folicito. 


I will give to thee this inftant 


Efa luminar antorcha. 


An account of who I am. 


Que defde fu plauftro rico 


Yonder torch of dazzling brightnefs 


El cielo ilumina a rayos. 


Which, from out its car of gold. 


El mundo defcribe a giros. 


Heaven with glorious beams enlightens. 


Ele planeta, que corre 


Earth encircles as it rolls ; 


Siempre hermofo, fiempre vivo. 


That great ftar whofe undiminifh'd 


Llevandofe tras si el dia. 


Power and beauty lead along 


Fue el luciente padre mio. 


Captive day untired, delighted. 


Prima naci de Medea 


Was my fplendour-crowned lire : 


En Tefalia, donde fuimos 


Being of Medea's kindred. 


Afombro de fus elludios. 


I with her, a child, was rear'd 


Y de fus ciencias prodigio ; 


In Theffalia as a fifter. 


Porque enfeiiadas ]as dos 


Where we were its fchooPs amazement. 


De un gran magico, nos hizo 


And the wonder of its fcience ; 


D06I0 efcandalo del mundo. 


For being there well taught, we two, 


Sabio portento del figlo : 


By a greatly-ikiird magician, 


Que en fin las mugeres, cuando 


We became the learned marvel 


Tal vez aplicar fe han vifto 


Of the world, a lore-enlighten'd 


A las letras, 6 a las armas. 


Lamp portentous to the age. 


Los hombres han excedido. 


For 'tis afcertain'd that women. 


Y afi, ellos envidiofos. 


When to letters or to arms 


Viendo nueftro animo invido, 


They with refolute will apply them. 


Viendo siitil* nueftro ingenio. 


Oftentimes furpafs the men. 


Porque no fuera el dominio 


Thus it is, by envy blinded. 


Todo nueftro, nos vedaron 


Fearing our unvanquifh'd fpirit. 


• Hartzenbufch reads agudo^ fee his edition. 


Dreading the refult to witnefs 


t. 5. p. 304. — Tr. 


Of our quick intelligence. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 43 


Las efpadas y los libros. 


Left all empire fhould be given 


No te digo, que elludie 


Unto us, to us have they 


Con generofo motivo 


Swords and books alike forbidden. 


Matematicas, de quien 


I fay nothing of the zeal. 


La filofofia principio 


Truth infpired, with which I ftudied 


Fue ; no te digo, que al cielo 


Mathematics, on whole bafe 


Los dos movimientos mido, 


All philofophy is builded. 


Natural y rapto, fiendo 


Or with what fuccefs I meafured. 


Ambos a un tiempo continues ; 


With a fcientific nicenefs, 


No te digo, que del fol 


The two movements of the fky. 


Los veloces curfos figo. 


Each by days and years divided. 


Siendo cambiante cuaderno 


Both continuous at one time. 


De tornafoles y vifos ; 


I fay nought of my untired 


No, que de la luna obfervo 


Watching of the fun's fwift courfe. 


Los refplandores mendigos ; 


As it oped its ever-fhifted 


Pues una dadiva fuya 


Gold-emblazon 'd book of light. 


Los hace pobres 6 ricos ; 


Or the moon's poor pauper brightnefs. 


No te digo, que los aftros, 


Begg'd for from the fun, like alms. 


Bien errantes, 6 bien fijos. 


Since its poverty and riches 


En efe papel azul 


Are his beams, refufed or given. 


Son mis letras : folo digo. 


I fay nothing of the fixed 


Que efto, aunque es eftudio noble, 


Or flow-moving orbs on high 


Fue para mi ingenio indigno ; 


Being to me but letters written 


Pues pafando a mas empenos 


On the heaven's cerulean page. 


La ambicion de mi albedrio. 


This alone I fay, this fmgly, 


El canto entiendo a las aves. 


That the ftudy of this fcience, 


Y a las fieras los bramidos. 


Noble though it be, feem'd worthlefs 


Siendo para mi patentes 


To my mind that fought the higheft. 


Agiieros 6 vaticinios. 


Since its free flight, foaring ever 


Cuantos pajaros al aire 


In purfuit of new achievements. 


Vuelan, ramilletes vivos. 


Learn'd what meant the birds' fweet 


Dando a entender, que fe llevan 


ditties. 


La primavera configo. 


And the howlings of the wild-beafts, 


Renglones Ton para mi, 


They to me becoming patent 


Ni fenalados, ni efcritos. 


Auguries or prophefyings. 


La harmonia de las flores. 


When the rich-plumed birds fweep by me 


Que en hermofos laberintos 


Like to living nofegays lifted 


Parece que es natural. 


High in air, the tidings telling 


Se yo bien que es artificio ; 


Of the fweet fpring they bear with them. 



44 EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR. 


Pues fon imprenta,* en que el cielo 


They to me are fecret ciphers. 


Eftampa raros avilbs. 


Legible although unwritten. 


Por las rayas de la mano 


Then the harmony of flowers. 


La quiromancia examino, 


In wild beauteous mazes mingled. 


Cuando en ajadas arrugas 


Though fo natural it feemeth. 


De la piel el fin admiro 


Well I know is artificial ; 


Del hombre ; la geomancia 


Since upon their lovely leaves 


En la tierra, cuando efcribo 


Rare advices heaven imprinteth. 


Mis carafteres en ella ; 


By the lines upon the hand 


Y en ella tambien configo 


Palmiftry's llrange lore delights me. 


La piromancia, cuando 


When the deftiny of man 


De fu centro, de fu abifmo. 


In the Ikin's poor wither'd wrinkles 


Hago abrirfe las entranas. 


I can fee. And geomancy 


Y abortar a mis gemidos 


On the earth, when I infcribe there 


Los difuntos, que refponden. 


My myfterious charafters ; 


De mi conjuro oprimidos. 


And with it I alfo mingle 


I Mas que mucho, fi al infierno 


Pyromancy, when from out 


Tal vez obediente he villo 


Earth's far centre, its abyffes. 


Temblar de mi ? j li tal vez 


I command its v^^omb to ope 


Sus efpiritus afiijo ? 


And with groans bring forth the buried 


I Pero para que te canfo ? 


Dead, w^ho anfwer all I alk, 


I Pero para que repito 


To my magic fpells fubmitted. 


Grandezas mias, fi todas 


And what wonder, when full oft 


En ella fola las cifro ? 


Hell itfelf is feen to Ihiver 


Para que mejor pudiefe 


With fubmifiive fear before me. 


Entregarme a mis defignios. 


When I queftion its loft fpirits ? 


A Trinacria vine, donde 


But for what fhould I fatigue thee ? 


En efte apartado fitio 


But for what fhould I thus fritter 


Del Etna y del Lilibeo, 


Time away, my greatnefs telling, 


Eftos palacios fabrico. 


When this fingle proof fufiices ? 


Deleitofas felvas fundo. 


That I might the better work 


Y montes incultos finjo. 


Out my plans uncheck'd, unwitnefs'd. 


Aqui pues, fiendo bandida 


I Trinacria fought, where here. 


Emperatriz de fiis rifcos. 


In this lonely fpot, which circle 


La vida cobro en tributo 


^tna and wild Lilybceum, 


De todos los peregrinos. 


I thefe palaces have builded. 


Que naufragos en el mar, 


Thefe delicious woods have planted 


A la ley de fii deftino, 


And with harvefts clothed thefe hills here. 


* Hartzenbufch reads planus, — Tr. 


Being thus the brigand queen 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT, 



45 



Cerrado puerto de nieve, 
Ofaron abrir caminos. 

Y porque fuefe mi imperio 
Mas raro y mas exquifito, 
Efas fieras y efos troncos 
Todos Ton vafallos mios ; 
Que los troncos y las fieras 
Viven aqui con inftinto ; 
Pues arboles racionaks 
Son hombres vegetativos. 
Efta foy, y con mirar 

El fol a mi voz rendido. 
La luna a mi accion atenta, 
Obediente a mi fufpiro 
Toda la caterva hermofa 
De los aftros y los fignos ; 
Con faber, que, cuando quiero. 
El cielo empano, que vibro 
Los ray OS, que de las nubes 
Aborto piedra y granizo, 
Que hago eftremecer los montes, 
Caducar los edificios, 
Titubear todo efe mar 

Y penetrar los abifmos ; 

Y finalmente trocarfe 
Los hombres fin albedrio 
En varias formas, teniendo 
Ya en las peiias obelifcos, 
Ya en las cortezas fepulcro, 

Y ya en las grutas afilo : 
Hoy a tus plantas me poflro. 
Hoy a tu valor me rindo, 

Y como muger te ruego, 
Como fenora te pido, 
Como Emperatriz te mando, 
Como fabia te fuplico. 

No te aufentes, hafta tanto 
Que hayas del itado vencido 
El rigor, con que te trajo 



Of this realm by rocks engirdled, 
I as tribute claim the lives 
Of all fhrangers who are fhipwreck'd ; 
Daring through this lonely fea. 
Yielding to a fate forewritten, 
A prefumptuous path to cleave 
Through this gulf by fnow-foam filver'd. 
And, in order that my realm 
Should be rareft and uniqueft, 
I have made as valTals mine 
Allthefe tree- trunks, all thefe wildbeafts; 
For the wild bealls and the trees 
Here poflefs peculiar inftinfts, — 
Vegetative men are they. 
Trees with human reafon gifted. 
This I am. The fun fubmilFive 
At my potent voice inclineth. 
At my beck the moon doth liflen. 
At my breath, in prompt obedience. 
All the beauteous troop of liars. 
And the zodiac figns and circles. 
With the knowledge then that I 
Can, whene'er I choofe, in mift-wreaths 
Hide the heavens, can launch the 

lightnings. 
Can from out the clouds parturient 
Bring forth frozen fleet and ftones ; 
That thefe mountains I can fhiver. 
Shake to dull: thefe edifices. 
Cleave afunder the abyffes 
Of the fea, and look within them ; 
That, in fine, againft their will 
I can change men to the likenefs 
Of what form I pleafe, fome having 
Obeliiks of rocks to gird them, 
Some their tombs in rough bark finding. 
Some in grottoes their afylum j 
Still I throw me at thy feet. 
To thy might to-day I yield me. 



46 



EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 



Derrotado y perfeguipo 
A inculcar* aqueftos mares. 
Quedate unos dias conmigo ; 
Veras trocado mi extremo 
De rigurofo en benigno, 
Con el gufto que te hofpedo. 
Con la atencion que te firvo ; 
Siendo el Flegra defde hoy. 
No ya fiero, no ya efquivo 
Hofpedage de Saturno, 
Siempre en roja fangre tinto ; 
Selva si de Amor y Venus, 
Deleitofo Paraifo, 
Donde fea todo gufto, 
Todo aplaufo, todo alivio, 
Todo paz, todo defcanfo. 
Y no quieras mas indicio 
De mi piedad, que fer hoy 
El primero que ha venido 
A aqueilos montes, a quien 
Con algun afeflo miro, 
Con algun agrado efcucho. 
Con algun cuidado afifto. 
Con algun gufto defeo, 
y con toda el alma eftimo. 



Vlifes {aparte). 
No fuera Ulifes, ft ya 
Que a eftos montes he venido. 
La libertad no trajera 
A cuantos aqui cautivos 

* Probably a mifprint for fulcar, which 
Hartzenbufch adopts. — Tr. 



And as ftmple woman alk thee. 

As a lady I deftre thee. 

As a fovereign I command thee, 

As a fage with tears invite thee, 

Not to go from this, until 

Thou haft well ftibdued the rigour 

Of the fate that hither drove thee. 

Toft, abandoned, anger-fmitten. 

Through thefe dangerous feas to fteer 

thee. 
Here remain fome few days with me. 
And thou'lt fee my rude behaviour 
Change to more exceftive mildnefs. 
In thy joyful entertainment. 
In the attention I will give thee. 
Phlegra from this day ftiall be 
Not that dreadful, not that fiery, 
Dwelling-houfe of Saturn which 
Ever is with red blood tinted ; 
But a grove of Love and Venus, 
An elyfium where unmixed 
Joy fliall reign, a bower of pleafure. 
Full of rapture, full of blift^es. 
Calm repofe and fweet refrefliment. 
And thou needeft have no higher 
Proof of my good will than this, 
That of all who have come hither 
To thefe mountains, thou'rt the firft 
Whom I fee with aught of kindnefs. 
Whom I hear with any pleafure. 
Whom I have in aught aflifted. 
Whom with any joy I wifli for. 
And whom all my foul defireth. 

UlyJJes {afide). 
I were not Ulyft^es if. 
Now that 'mid thefe hills I find me, 
I did not reftore to freedom 
All thofe captives whom bewitchment 
Holds imprifon'd here. To-day 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 47 


Tiene el encanto. Hoy fere 


I will prove myfelf this fphinx's 


De aquella Esfinge el Edipo. 


CEdipus through all her lures. 


Antijies {aparte a el). 


Antifles {aftde to him). 


Senor, no de fus lifonjas 


Ah! my lord, do not confide thee 


Te creas, porque es fingido 


To her flatteries : her endearments 


Su halago. 


All are feign'd. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Huyamos de aqui. 


Ah ! let us fly hence. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Que dices, Ulifes ? 


What, Ulyfles, fay'ft thou ? 


Vlifes. 


UlyJTes. 


Digo, 


This, 


Que no pudiera fer noble 


That his nature were unknightly 


Quien no fuefe agradecido. 


Who could thanklefs be for kindnefs. 


Y que conmigo he de fer 


And that / mull be felf-cruel. 


Cruel, por fer cortes contigo. 


Thee to treat with due politenefs. 


Cafandra {aparte). 


Caffandra {afide). 


Ay de ti ! porque no fabes 


Woe to thee ! thou little knoweft 


A lo que te has atrevido. 


What thy boldnefs enterprifeth. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Pideme pues en albricias 


Alk me then by way of earneft 


Una merced. 


For fome favour. 


Ulifes. 


Ulyffes. 


Solo pido. 


I afk Amply 


Que eftos dos arboles, que hoy 


That thefe two trees which to-day 


A laftima me han movido. 


Moved fo much my grief and pity. 


Porque fue mi acero caufa 


Since my fword unwittingly 


De aumentarles fu martirio. 


Upon them new pain inflifled,* 


En pago de aquefto, fean 


Shall, in recompenfe of this. 


A la luz reftituidos. 


Back to living light be given. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Efte arbol Flerida, una 


This tree here was Flerida, 


* This is not explained. Nothing is faid 1 


hroughout the entire play from which it can be 


inferred how the fword of Ulyffes augmented the 


fuffering which Flerida and Lyfidas endured under 


their transformation into trees. Perhaps in fome 


; paflage which is fupprefled there may have been 


a theatrical trick or artifice introduced to which t 


his is an allufion ; for inftance, Ulyffes might have 


ftruck with his fword thefe trees, from which bl 


ood might have iffued — Hartzenbusch. 



48 



EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR, 



Divina hermofura, ha fido, 
Dama mia, y mi privanza. 
Rindio al amor fu albedrio, 
Enamorada de un joven, 
Lifidas en fu apellido, 
Heredero de Tofcana, 
Que de efe mar peregrino 
Salio a tierra ; y porque ofados 
Profanaron el retire 
De mi palacio, afi yacen 
En arboles convertidos ; 
Porque, aunque yo fiera y monftruo. 
Tan dad a foy a los vicios. 
Solos delitos de amor 
Fueron para mi delitos ; 
Tanto, que Arfidas, valiente 
Joven y Principe invito 
De Trinacria, a cuyo imperio 
Eftos montes tiranizo. 
Con faber que enamorado 
De mi hermofura ha venido. 
No ha merecido tener 
• Mas favor, que volver vivo. 
Pero ya que es la primera 
Cofa, que tu me has pedido, 
Flerida y Lifidas rompan 
Las prifiones que han tenido. 

\_Abrenfe dos arboles^ y falen 
Flerida j? Lisidas. 

Lifidas. 

Torpe el difcurfo, atado el penfamiento. 
La razon ciega, el animo oprimido. 
Sin ufo el alma, el corazon rendido, 
Muda la voz, y timido el aliento ; 

Sin voluntad, memoria, entendimiento. 
Vivo cadaver de efte tronco he lido. 
Ya pues, que me quitabas el fentido, 
Quitarafme tambien el fentimiento. 



Who, with rareft beauty gifted. 

Was my confidential lady. 

She to love her free heart yielded. 

Being enamour'd of a youth, 

Lyfidas by name, entitled 

To the fair Etrufcan kingdom, 

Who upon this fea a pilgrim 

Landed here : and for their daring 

To profane the calm retirement 

Of my palace, thus they lie. 

Into two fair trees transfigured; 

Since, though monftrous I may feem, 

Subjeft to fo many vices. 

Love's offences are by me 

But the fole ones unforgiven ; 

So much fo, that Arfidas, 

A brave youth, Trinacria's prince here. 

From whofe fceptre thefe proud hills 

I have fever'd and divided. 

Knowing that inflamed with love 

Of my beauty he came hither, 

Merited no greater boon 

Than to get back with his life hence. 

But as this is the firft thing 

Thou haft alk'd that I fhould give thee, 

Flerida and Lyfidas, 

Burft the prifon bonds that bind ye. 

[The trees open and 'p-L^'R.m\ and 
Lysidas come forth, 

Lyfidas. 
Dull was my mind, embarrafs'd was my 
thought. 
Blind was my reafon, and my mind 

oppreft, 
Ufelefs my foul, my heart by fear 

oppreft, 
Mute was my voice, and all my brain 
diftraught ; 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT 49 


Si de amar (ay de mi) a Flerida bella. 


Without the power to will or think of 


Caftigo fue efta forma, en vano 


aught, 


qaieres. 


A breathing corfe I lived this ftrange 


Que yo meolvide, porque vivo en el!a. 


tree's gueft : 


Los troncos aman : luego mal infieres. 


Ah ! fince thou took'ft the feeling 


Que, por fer tronco, vencere mi 


from my breaft, 


eflrella. 


Why not the pain that all thisfuffering 


Pues no la vences tu, y mas fabia eres. 


wrought ? 




If 'twas for loving Flerida the fair 




I thus was punifh'd, then how vainly 




tries 




Thy wrath to kill the love that lives 




in her ; — 




Trees even love ; — the ftar that rules my 




ikies 




If thou doft feek to darken, thou doft 




err. 
Since thou art foil'd although thou art 




more wife. 


Flerida. 


Flerida, 


Racional, vegetable y fenfitiva 


Life^ reafon, feeling. Heaven's all-wife 


Alma el cielo le dio al fugeto humano ; 


decree 


Vegetable y fenfible al bruto ufano ; 


Unites commingled in man's heart and 


Al tronco y a. la flor vegetativa. 


brain. 


Tres almas fon ; li de las dos me priva 


Feeling and life in beafts that fcour the 


Tu voz, porque amo a Lifidas, en 


plain. 


vano 


And life alone in budding flower and 


Solicitas mi olvido, pues es llano 


tree. 


Que, aun tronco, alma me dejas con 


Thefe are three fouls : if two out of the 


que viva. 


three 


No de todo mi amor tendra la palma 


I lofe for loving Lyfidas, in vain 


La parte, en que has querido con- 


Thou feek'ft that I forget him, fmce 


fervarme ; 


'tis plain 


De aquella si,quepermiti6 efta calma : 


That, though a tree, a foul ftill dwells 


Luego mudarme en tronco, no es 


in me. 


mudarme ; 


Thofe I have loft do not contain the 


Porque fi no me quitas toda el alma. 


whole 


Todo el amor no has de poder qui- 


Of that fond love that thy dread wrath 


tarme 

1 


could wake. 



50 EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR, 




The one I keep is free from thy 




control ; 




To change me thus doth feem a ftrange 




miftake. 




Becaufe if thou doll take not all my 




foul. 




All of my love thou haft not power to 




take. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Agradeced vueftras vidas 


For your new-recover'd lives 


Al huefped, que me ha venido. 


Thank the gueft who ftands befide me. 


Y vivid los dos feguros 


And be fure henceforth that I 


Por el ya de mis caftigos. 


Shall not with new pains chaftife ye. 


Como de vueftros amores 


If you give not of your loves 


No deis el mas leve indicio. 


Any new hint to remind me. 


Lijtdas. 


Lyftdas. 


Siempre, Ulifes, me tendras 


Ever fhalt thou fee me lie 


A tus pies agradecido. 


Grateful at thy feet, UlylTes. 


Flerida. 


Flerida'. 


Y fiempre confefare. 


And for ever fhall I own 


Que por cuenta tuya vivo. 


Thine the life this day thou giv'ft me. 


Circe. 


Circe, 


Pues porque empiecen a fer 


Then in order that from this 


Defde hoy aplaufos feftivos 


Our glad feftive notes fhould circle 


Todo el monte, todo el valle. 


Round the mountain, round the valley. 


Todo el mar y todo el fitio. 


Round the fea and all it girdles. 


Volved a cantar, y todos 


Raife the ftrain once more, and lead 


Con el volved, y conmigo. 


Him and me back thus united. 


Mujica. 


Song. 


En hora dichofa venga 


Be the hour propitious when 


A los palacios de Circe 


To the palace-halls of Circe 


El rayo de los Troyanos, 


Comes the terror-bolt of Troy 


El difcreto y fuerte Ulifes : 


The difcreet and bold Ulyffes,— 


En hora'difchofa venga .... 


Bright, propitious be the hour .... 


Sale Arsidas. 


Enter Arsidas. 


Arjtdas. 


Arjjdas. 


No venga en hora dichofa. 


Be it not propitious when 


Felice en defprecio mio. 


He comes here in my defpifal, 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 51 


Ni el que fue fepulcro a tantos, 


Nor the grave-yard of fo many 


Hoy a uno folo fea alivio. 


Prove a folace to him fmgly ; 


Peligre en la tierra quien 


Let him who thefe wild feas dared 


Por aquefos mares vino. 


On the land endure new rifks here. 


En fu fombra tropezando. 


From one danger to another 


De un peligro a otro peligro. 


Ever treading as he flieth. 


Efe acento harmoniofo. 


Let this foftly-cadenced ftrain. 


Que le faluda benigno. 


Which faluteth him benignly. 


Airado trueque en endechas 


Change to mournful wails of woe. 


Trifles, funebres caiftros 


Hoarfely change to funeral dirges. 


Las claufulas, porque fean 


Prophefying thus to him 


De fus tragedias avifo ; 


What the tragic future bringeth. 


Que no es jufto, no, que un Griego 


For it is not fit that he. 


Extrangero, advenedizo, 


A Greek ftranger, a benighted 


De tanto ufado rigor 


Alien, fhould come here to change 


Venga a mudar el eflilo. 


Thine accuftom'd form of rigour. 


I Defde cuando, Circe bella. 


Since what time, O Circe fair ! 


Con tanto aplaufo fellivo. 


With fuch feilal fongs and timbrels. 


Con tan alegre aparato. 


With fuch joyful preparation. 


Tanto noble regocijo 


With a proud difplay fo princely, 


Al foraftero faludas. 


Doll thou thus falute the flranger. 


Recibes al peregrino. 


Thus receive the wretch here driven. 


Sin que elle mar, 6 eftas peiias 


Without making thefe ileep rocks. 


Le firvan de precipicio. 


Sea-wafh'd, be his precipices. 


ya convertido en fiera. 


Or transform'd into a tree. 


ya en arbol convertido, 


Or tranfmuted to a wild-beaft. 


Tenga en las peiias fu eilancia. 


Make him hold 'mid clifFs his dwelling. 


Tenga en las grutas fu afilo ? 


Amid grottoes his afylum ? 


Principe foy de Trinacria : 


Of Trinacria Prince am I : — 


No derrotado y perdido 


Not as one nigh loll and fhip-wreck'd 


Llegue a efle puerto, pues vine 


Came I to this port, but drawn 


De mis afeftos traido. 


By my true love came I hither. 


Porque aun aquefto tambien 


That my heart's free-will fhould be 


Debiefes a mi albedrio ; 


Thus a new claim to thy pity : — 


Que no quifo, no, el que folo 


Since he loves not, he who only 


Porque le fue fuerza quifo. 


Loves becaufe fome force inciteth, 


Ni es facrilicio, no fiendo 


And if not fpontaneous, all 


Voluntario el facrificio. 


Sacrifice is worfe than idle. 


Y en cuanto tiempo eflos montes. 


And fince fight of thee has been 



52 EL MJTOR ENCANTO AMOR. 


Por folo mirarte, vivo. 


'Mid thefe hills my fole exiflence. 


No he debido a tu rigor. 


I owe little to thy rigour. 


Ni a tu crueldad he debido 


To thy cruelty as little. 


Una accion, a quien me mueftre 


Nought for which to thee fhould I 


Gailofo, ni agradecido ; 


Joy or gratitude exhibit. 


Tanto, que aun de tus encantos 


Only that exempt from all 


Libre, eftos campos alillo. 


Thy enchantments, I can vifit 


Porque en tantos fentimientos 


Thefe dread fields, in order that 


No me faltafen fentidos. 


For the forrows that afHid me 


Pues dos hombres folamente 


Human fenfes fhould not fail. 


Los que nos libramos fuimos. 


Since then but two men are fingled 


Ulifes J yo, porque 


Out of all the world, to whom 


Todo hoy en defprecio mio 


Freedom from thy fpell is given. 


Refulte ; pues fi los dos 


This UlyfTes and myfelf,— 


Nos refervamos, ha fido 


Ah ! the exemption but inflidleth 


Ulifes para gozarlo. 


A new pang, a frefh defpilal. 


Y Arfidas para fentirlo. 


Since if we are both preferved. 




'Tis with more malign refinement 




To give pain to Arfidas, 




To give rapture to UlyfTes. 


Ulifes. 


Ulyfes. 


Si de mi dicha envidiofo. 


If thou enviefl my good fortune. 


Si de mi fuerte ofendido .... 


If my happier fate afHifts thee .... 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Calla, Arfidas, fi conoces. 


Ceafe, O Arfidas! if thou 


Que ]a vida te permito. 


Knowefl that I have permitted 


Porque es la mayor venganza 


Thee to live, fmce greater vengeance 


Que tomo, como tu has dicho. 


I could take not, as admitted 


Dejarte vivir, teniendo 


By thyfelf, than with thy life 


Sentimientos y fentidos. 


Feelings and their food to give thee. 


Quejarte de mi, es decirme. 


To complain is but to tell me 


Que lo que bufco configo ; 


That I have obtain'd my wifhes. 


Y afi, porque tu te quejes. 


And that thou mayft ftill complain. 


Yo la caufa no te quito. — 


I the caufe fhall flill leave with thee. 


Can tad, can tad, y tu ven, 


Sing, fing, and at my fide 


Ulifes, al lado mio. 


Come unto my court, UlyfTes. 


Lehrel {a Clarin). 


Lebrel {ajtde to Clarin). 


No fon muy malas las dos 


Not fo very bad thefe two. 


Circecillas de poquito. 


Circe's little fervant Circelets. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 53 


Clarin {a Lebrel). 


Clarin {to Lebrel). 


No hay que volver a dar cartas ; 


Don't mind fhuffling ; I will take 


Que yo las tomo, y no miro. 


My chance of trumps and win though 




blinded. 


Afire a {aparte). 


Aftrea {afide). 


Habianme dicho, que eran 


They have told me that the Greeks 


Los Griegos feos y efquivos. 


All were fcornful and unfightly ; 


Y ni efquivos fon, ni feos. 


But nor ugly nor fo coy 


Tanto como me habian dicho. 


Are they as they have been libell'd. 


1 Lifidas. 


Lyjtdas. 


jGracias a Amor, que otra vez. 


Thanks to Love, fair Flerida, 


Flerida hermofa, te miro ! 


That once more thy face I witnefs ! 


Flerida. 


Flerida. 


J Gracias, Lifidas, a Amor 


Thanks to Love, I live once more. 


Que otra vez a amarte vivo ! 


Lyfidas, my heart to give thee ! 


Circe {aparte). 


Circe {afide). 


Vencerale mi hermofura. 


Let my beauty him fubdue. 


Pues mi ciencia no ha podido. 


Since fo powerlefs was my fcience ! 


Ulifes {aparte). 


Vlyjfes {afitde). 


Librare de aqueita fiera 


I, by feigning love, may free 


A Trinacria, fi amor finjo. 


Fair Trinacria from this wild-beail. 


Arfidas {aparte). 


Arfidas {afide). 


Solo zelos me faltaban. 


I but needed jealoufy 


Ya efta todo el mal cumplido. 


My full cup of woe to embitter. 


Mufica. 


So?ig. 


En hora dichola venga, &c. 


Be the hour propitious when 




To the palace-halls of Circe 




Comes the never-vanquifh'd Greek, 




The invincible Ulyffes ! 




\_Exeunt, all finging. 


=/^ 


£^ 





JORNADA II. 


ACT THE SECOND. 


Palacio de Circe. 


Circe's Palace. 


Salen Circe, llorando, Flerida, Tisbe, 


Enter Circe in tears, attended by Fle- 


Casandra, Astrea, Libia, y Clori. 


rida, Thisbe, Cassandra, Astrea, 




Libia and Chloris. 


Libia. 


Libia. 


W^^ENORA, que llanto es efte ? 


^^^"^ADY, what lament is this? 


W^I^W I Que pena, fenora, es efta ? 


^ 

i 


^^^ Ah, my lady, whence this 
U^P ^adnefs ? 


Clori. 


Chloris. 


I Tu lagrimas en los ojos ? 

Flerida. 


Canft thou fill thine eyes with tears ? 
Flerida. 


I Tu fufpiros, y tu quejas ? 

Tijhe. 
I Que ocafion pudo moverte 


Sob and figh like one diftrafted ? 

Thijbe. 
Say what fudden caufe of grief 


A que fentimientos tengas ? 


Can thy fenfes thus have marter'd? 


Cafandra. 
Los males comunicados. 


Cajfandra. 
The confiding of our ills 


Si no fe vencen, fe templan. 


If it cures not, mitigates them. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


J Quien tiene de que quejarfe, 
O cuanto en quejarfe yerra ! 
Que la jufticia del llanto 


He who for complaint hath caufe. 
Oh ! how errs he who complaineth ! 
Since the juftice of his plaining 


Hace apacibles las penas. 
Yo all mi triileza quiero. 


Turns his very grief to gladnefs. 
I fo love my fource of forrow. 


Que tan poco no me deba. 


Feel fo much its fweet advantage. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT, 55 


Que en repetirla procure 


That I would not by repeating 


Hacer menor mi trifteza. 


Take one fting from out my fadnefs. 


Dejadme fola. 


Leave me here alone. 


Aftrea {apart e las dos). 


Aftrea {to Libia). 


Oyes, Libia ? 


Canft hearken. 




Libia? 


Libia, 


Libia. 


Razonablemente, Aftrea. 


Pretty well, Aftrea. 


AJirea. 


Aftrea. 


\ Plegue a Amor, que eftos extremes 


Love but. grant that thefe exceffes 


Lo que yo pienfo no fean I 


Are not what my fear doth fancy ! 


Libia. 


Libia. 


J Plegue al Amor, que fi haga ! 


Love but grant they are, if it 


Qiie es lo que plegamos pienfa : 


Fancieth what we both figh after ! 


Pues fi es amor la ocafion 


Since if their true fource be love. 


Dellos, y ella a verfe llega 


If fhe has her own heart granted 


Enamorada, dara .... 


To love's fway, fhe'll give us ... . 


Aftrea. 


Aftrea. 


Que? 


What? 


Libia, 


Libia. 


Libertad de conciencia. 


Liberty of confcience, may be. 


Aftrea. 


Aftrea. 


Holgareme de falir 


I indeed were glad to free me 


De religion tan eftrecha. 


From a worftiip fo contraded. 


Como es el honor. Veftales 


And fo ftrid as honour is. 


Virgenes Diana celebra 


Great Diana celebrateth 


Entre gentes, mas nofotras 


Among men her feftal choirs 


Entre animales y fieras 


Of veftal virgins, but, unhappy ! 


Somos virgenes beftiales. 


We poor beftial virgins feem 




Among beafts who growl and chatter. 


Libia. 


Libia. 


Calla, porque no lo entienda. 


Silence, left fhe overhear us ! 


\VanJe to das las Dam as. 


\_Exeunt all the ladies and at- 


menos Flerida. 


tendants but Flerida. 


Circe, 


Circe. 


Flerida, tu no te aufentes : 


Flerida, in the others' abfence 


Sola conmigo te queda. 


I would fpeak with thee alone 


Que tengo que hablarte fola. 


Of a certain private matter : 




Stay thou here with me. 



S6 EL MATOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 


Flerida {apart e). 


Flerida {afide). 


Sin duda, cielos, que intenta 


O heavens ! 


Darme caftigo mayor. 


Doubtlefs now her anger planneth 


Que el que en la dura corteza 


Some new puniftiment, feverer 


Tuve, porque hable efta tarde 


Than the hard bark that enwrapp'd me. 


A Lifidas. 


Since this evening I have fpoken 


Circe. 


Unto Lyfidas, 


Oye atenta : 


Circe. 


Efte Ulifes, efte Griego, 


Now, mark me ; 


Que efa maritima beftia 


This UlyiTes, this Greek king, 


Sorbio fin duda en el mar. 


Whom the fea — that mighty kraken — 


Para efcupirle en la tierra ; 


Doubtlefs fwallow'd on the ocean 


Efte, que a la difcrecion 


To outfpew him on the land here ; 


De los vientos, con defhecha 


He who at the wild wind's lifting. 


Fortuna, tan derrotado 


So forfaken, fo ftorm-fliaken. 


Llego a tocar eftas felvas ; 


Came to anchor by thefe groves ; 


Efte, que trajo deidad 


He who calleth in his danger 


Superior en fu defenfa. 


On fome mightier god to aid him. 


Pues, burlando mis encantos. 


Since defpifing my enchantments 


Les tiraniza la fuerza ; 


O'er their power he tyrannifeth : 


Efte pues, que mi hofpedage 


He who courteouily hath granted 


Cortefanamente acepta, 


All my hofpitable wifhes. 


Adonde hoy tan divertido 


And a glad gueft at my table. 


Vive, olvidado de Grecia : 


Lives forgetful now of Greece. 


Como fi fuera mi vida 


He it is who in my heart here 


Troya, ha introducido en ella 


(Ah ! as if 'twere Troy) hath kindled 


Tanto fuego, que en cenizas 


Such a fire, that foon in afties 


No dudo que fe refuelva ; 


Doubtlefs it muft be dilTolved ; 


Y con razon ; porque ya 


And with reafon, fince already 


En callado fuego envuelta. 


Wrapp'd in hidden flames it burns. 


Cada aliento es un Volcan, 


Every breath it breathes volcanic. 


Cada fufpiro es un Etna. 


Every figh an ^tna feems. 


Quifiera .... quifiera dije ? 


I would love him .... would love ! — 


Mai empece ; pues fi es fuerza 


badly 


Querer, Flerida, y ya quiero. 


I begin in faying " would ; " 


Erre en decir, que quifiera. 


Since, if doom'd to love, I madly 


Quiero, digo ; pero quiero 


Yield to Fate, I err in faying 


Tanto a mi ambicion atenta. 


I would love when love hath happen'd. 


Que quiero a Ulifes, y no 


Him I fay I love, but love 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 57 


Quiero, que Ulifes lo entienda. 


With an eye of fuch exaftnefs 


Ahora te admiraras 


To decorum, that I wifh 


De que yo, que tan foberbia 


He fhould know not my attachment. 


Tu amor reni, te fie el mio ; 


Wonder now that I who late 


Pero admirarafte necia ; 


Chid thy love with fo much anger. 


Porque la caufa mayor. 


Should confide to thee my own ; 


Porque la ocafion mas cierta 


But thy wonder is the vaineft. 


De incurrir en una culpa. 


Since the greateft caufe of all. 


Es haber dicho mal della. 


The fure fource that never faileth, 


Y porque el contar delitos, 


Of committing any fault. 


A quien es complice, cuefta 


Is fometimes to reprimand it. 


Menos vergiienza, yo quife 


And becaufe confefling crimes 


Recatear ella vergiienza. 


To an accomplice doth o'ermantle 


Y porque me cuelle menos. 


The fiufh'd face with bluflies lefs. 


Decirlos a quien los fepa. 


I defire to drive this hardeil 


Yo amo en fin, Flerida mia ; 


Bargain with my blufhes thus. 


Vengada efias de mi ofenfa. 


And to make my heart's crimes Hand me 


J Pluguiera a Jupiter fanto. 


A lefs price, to tell them thee. 


Tu trasformarme pudieras 


Who fo well can underftand them. 


A mi en infenfible planta. 


Ah ! my Flerida, I love ! — 


Que yo te lo agradeciera ! 


Now thou art avenged with ample 


Porque li fupiera entonces 


Jufiice for my bygone wrong. 


Lo que es amor, mas quifiera 


Would that facred Jove might grant thee 


Verte enamorada y viva. 


Power, through magic transformation. 


Que no enamorada y muerta. 


To a fenfelefs plant to change me ! 


Enamorada en efefto 


Oh ! how^ thankful would I be ! 


Llego, y pues tu a faber llegas. 


Since, if at that time, exaftly 


Que es amor, de ti pretendo 


I knew what was love, enamour'd 


Ayudar una cautela ; 


I would fee thee living, rather 


Y es, que para poder yo 


Than enamour'd not and dead. 


Hablar con el, fin que el fepa 


Since then love is fuperadded 


Que foy yo la que le habla. 


To my paft experience, and 


Tu con ruegos y finezas 


Thou too knoweft love's enthralments. 


Le has de enamorar de dia. 


In a little ilratagem 


Y diciendole que venga 


I expeft that thou wilt aid me; 


De noche a hablarte, eftare 


And it is, — that I may fpeak 


Yo con tu nombre encubierta. 


With him, without any danger 


Donde mi altivez, mi honor. 


Of his knowing that 'tis I [thee 


Mi vanidad, mi foberbia. 


Who fpeak with him ; thou muft mafk 

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58 EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR. 


Mi refpeto, mi decoro 
No fe rindan, y . . . . 


So in foft requells and fmiles. 
So by day his heart entangle. 
That when thou requir'il that he 




Meet thee nightly in the garden. 




I may take thy place, conceal'd 
'Neath thy name as 'neath a mantle. 


Flerida. 


Where my haughtinefs, my honour. 
Where the pride on which I trample. 
My decorum, felf-refpe6l 
May be fafe from .... 

Flerida. 


Oye, efpera. 
Que quieres hacer en mi 


Hear, oh ! hearken : 
For thou wouldft attempt on me 


Dos coftofas experiencias. 
Yo amo a Lifidas, y tu 


Two experiments the hardell. 
I love Lyfidas, and thou. 


Cruel, feiiora, me ordenas. 
Que difimule el amarle ; 


Lady, fternly wouldft command me 
To difTemble that I love him ; 


Yo no amo a Ulifes, e intentas. 


I Ulyffes love not, nathlefs 


Que finja amarle. i Pues como. 


Thou defireft I fliould feign fo ; 


A dos afeftos atenta. 


How, by two defires diftrafted, 


Quieres, que olvide a quien quiero, 
Y que a quien olvido quiera ? 


Can I think of the ne'er thought of. 
And forget the never abfent ? — 


Damas denes con quien hoy 


Ladies haft thou here with whom 


Partir los afedlos puedas ; 
A una alma bafta un cuidado. 


Thou thy feelings thus may parcel ; 
To one heart one care's enough. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Y aun la mifma caufa es efa ; 


It is therefore that I aik thee. 


Yo fe, que quien llega a eflar 


Since I know that whofoever 


Enamorada, no deja 


Is in love, can keep vacated 


Lugar para otro cuidado 


Heart-fpace for no alien care : 


En el alma : luego acierta 


Safe then is he who imparteth 


Quien a ella el fuyo le fia. 


His heart's love to fuch an one. 


Porque no peligra en ella 
El riefgo de enamorarfe, 
Pues ya lo ella ; de manera. 


Since in love itfelf, the latter 
Runs no danger of becoming 
His friend's rival ; in this manner 


Que tu no me daras zelos. 


Thou no jealoufy wilt give me. 


Y otra si, cuando te vea 


Even when I fee thou ftandeft 


Con Ulifes ; pues tu amor 
Sanea la contingencia. 


By Ulyffes fide, — thy love 
Bailing the contingent danger. 



LOt^E THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT 59 


Efto ha de fer en efefto. — 


This thou muft in fine contrive. — 


I Mas que ruido es efe ? 


But what noife is this ? 


Flerida. 


Flerida. 


Llegan 


Two valets 


Dos criados aqui, 7 traen 


Hither come, engaged no doubt 


Sin duda algAana pendencia. 


In fome fcolding match or quarrel. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Retirate ; que no quiero. 


Step a little back, I would not 


Que a todas horas me vean. 


Have them every moment pafs me. 


Y efcuchemos defde aqui 


And we'll hear from this, how they 


Lo que tratan en mi aufencia. 


Treat me when they think me abfent. 


\_Retiranfe. 


{They retire. 


Sale Lebrel y Clarin. 


Enter Lebrel and Clarin. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Digo, que es la mejor vida. 


I ftill fay, no fweeter life 


Que tuve en mi vida, aquefta. 


Have I in my whole life tafted. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Efo dices ? 


Can you fay fo ? 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Efto digo ; 


This I fay,— 


Y que en el mundo no hay tierra 


That Trinacria is the marvel 


Como Trinacria, y que Circe 


Of the whole world, and that Circe 


Es un angel en belleza 


Is in form and face an angel 


Y condicion. 


Of perfe6lion. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Eftas loco ? 


Art thou mad ? 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Dime, i elk no nos hofpeda 


Tell me, are we not here treated 


Como a unos reyes ? 


As if we were kings ? 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Es cierto ; 


'Tis true, 


Mas mucho mejor nos fuera. 


But a better place, I fancy. 


Que en fus palacios, eftar 


For us were a Grecian cook-fhop. 


En un bodegon de Grecia. 


Than thefe palaces of marble. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


I No comemos lindamente ? 


Don't we eat though fumptuoufly ? 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


No ; que no hay comida buena 


No, 'tis not a pleafant banquet 



6o EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR. 


Adonde no doy bocado. 


Where I fcarce can take a mouthful. 


Que no pienfe, que me deja 


But I think I'm tranfmigrated 


Hecho un cochino. 


To a hog. 


LebreL 


LebreL 


No es efo 


That's not fo bad 


Tan malo como tu pienfas ; 


By one half as you imagine ; 


Que yo lo fui, y no me hallaba 


I was one fome time, and found me 


Mai con ferlo ; de manera. 


Nought the worfe for what had happen'd ; 


Que a cuantos ccchinos hay 


So that now when I behold 


Sin alino y fin limpieza. 


Happy pigs, unkempt, untrammell'd. 


Difculpo, porque fe ahorran 


Wallowing in the mire, I give them 


De muchas impertinencias. 


My forgivenefs, fince their mianners 


Y al cafo, i donde hallaras 


Save them from much ufelefs trouble. 


Una cama tan compuella ? 


To thepoint though ; where, my mafter, 




Have you fuch a foft bed found ? 


Clarin. 


Clarin, 


No ella el defcanfo en la cama ; 


Reft comes not from bed or blanket ; 


Ni hay picaro, que no duerma 


Not a beggar but fleeps better 


Sin penas en un pajar 


On his fcanty ftraw-ftrewn pallet. 


Mejor, que un fenor con ellas 


Free of care, than doth a lord 


En una cama dorada. 


Rack'd with his, upon his grand bed. 


LebreL 


LebreL 


I Donde eftos jardines vieras ? 


Where fuch gardens have you feen ? 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


I Para que quiero jardines r 


Gardens ? what care I for gardens ? 


^ LebreL 


LebreL 


Cogite : ,: donde tuvieras 


Now I have you, tell me where 


Dos mozas de tan buen aire. 


Have you feen two girls, the matches 


Como fon Libia y Aftrea ? 


Of fair Lybiaand Aftrea? 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Dareme por concluido 


Well to that there's but one anfwer ; 


En tocandome efa tecla ; 


You have touch'd the chord at lail ; 


Pero no confefare, 


But I won't confefs fo gladly. 


Que Circe no es una fiera. 


Circe is not a wild-beaft. 


Nigromante, encantadora. 


A demoniac, a witch-charmer. 


Energumena, hechicera. 


An hobgoblin, a wild vampire ; 


Sucuba, incuba ; y en fin 


And in fine to end our quarrel, 


Es, por acabar el tema. 


A flie-devil among demons. 


Con los demonios demonia. 


A duenda among fairies. 

1 



LOl^E THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 6i 


Como, con los duendes duenda. 




Circe {apart e aFlerida). 


Circe {aftde to Flerida). 


No puedo fufrir ya mas 


Oh ! I can't endure to let 


El efcuchar mis ofenfas. 


This infulting fcene go farther. 


Fie rid a. 


Flerida. 


No te des por entendida. 


Do not feem as if you heard them. 


Clariri. 


Clarin. 


Y es Circe .... 


Circe is ... . 


Salen Circe j Flerida. 


Circe and Flerida advance. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Que es ? 


Pray what? 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Una Reina, 


A lady. 


Y a quien dijere otra cofa. 


And a queen, and who denies it 


Le dare, porque no mienta. 


I will teach him better manners. 


Dos mil palos, como uno. — 


By two thoufand blows at leall. 


[d Lebrel. 


[to Lebrel. 


Y a ti, porque no te atrevas 


As for you becaufe you gabbled 


A hablar mal de las fenoras 


Something naughty of the noble 


Donas Circes en fu aufencia. 


Lady Circes in their abfence. 


Yo te hare .... 


I will make .... 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


I Pues quien hablaba 


Why, who fpoke badly 


Mal, fmo tu ? 


But yourfelf ? 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Buena es efa ; 


Well, that is cool ! 


^* A mi por los filos ? 


Would you turn the tables ? 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Bafta. 


Mark me. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Yo . . . . 


I.... 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Bien efla. 


'Tis well. 


Clarin [apart e). 


Clarin {afide). 


El cielo quiera. 


Heaven grant that Ihe 


Que no ovefe lo demas. 


Did not hear our tittle-tattle ! 


Lebrel 


Lebrel. 


i Que tan gran mentira creas ! 


Who'd believe fo great a liar r 



62 EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Yo fe bien lo que es verdad. 


I know well the truth of the matter. 


Vos OS falid alia fuera ; 


Go, and wait without : to-day 


Que yo hare, que mi caftigo 


I fliall make a dread example 


Hoy efcarmiente la lengua. 


Of the faucy tongue that dared 


Que hablo mal de mi. 


To infult me. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Yfem 


And 'twill be 


Muy jufto. 


Only juft. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Que efto fuceda ! [Fafe. 


That this fhould happen ! 




{Exit. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


A ti, en page de que afi 


As for thee, to pay thy zeal 


Hoy mis acciones deiiendas. 


In defence of the way I aft here. 


Te quiero dar un teforo. 


I intend a gift to give thee. 


Con que a Grecia rico vuelvas. 


With which rich to Greece thou'lt 


De efe monte en lo intrincado 


travel :■ — 


Llamaras con voces fieras 


Deep within this mountain's thickets, 


Tres veces a Brutamonte ; 


Thou fhalt call out loud and fharply 


Que el te dara la refpuefta. 


Three times upon Brutamonte, 




Who will give to thee thy anfwer. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Mil veces tus plantas befo ; 


At thy feet a thoufand kiffes. 


Que bien tu gran valor mueftras. 


Thou, who knowell to aft fo grandly : 


A toda ley, hablar bien. 


Civil fpeaking is my motto. 


i Que haya hombres de mala lengua ! 


Oh ! that men fhould ufe bad language ! 


[Fafe. 


\_Exit. 


Flertda. 


Flerida. 


I Como caftigas, feiiora. 


How is it thou doft punifli, lady. 


Al que te defiende, y premias 


Thy defender, and rewardeft 


Al que te ofende ? 


Him who wronged thee ? 


Circe. 


Circe. 


A fu tiempo 


In due time, 


Veras el premio que lleva. 


Thou'lt perceive why thus I've aded. 


Sale AsTREA. 


Enter Astrea. 


Afirea. 


AJlrea. 


Ulifes defde fu cuarto 


From his quarter comes UlyiTes 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 63 


Al tuyo pafa. 


To wait on thee. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Aqui empieza 


Here at laft then 


Del amor y la altivez 


'Twixt my love and pride commences 


La mas cautelofa guerra. 


The moft lingular of battles ; 


Pues no he de dar por vencida 


Since I'd wifh that one were viftor. 


La que quiero que fe venza. 


Yet the other not be mafter'd. 


[Vanfe. 


\Exeunt. 


Jardin. 


The Garden. 


Salen Ulises, Circe, Flerida, Li- 


Enter Ulysses, Circe, Flerida, Lysi- 


siDAS, Antistes, Arquelao, Le- 


das, Antistes, Archelaus, Lebrel, 


BREL, Clarin, Casandra, Damas, 


Clarin, Cassandra, Ladies, Greeks, 


Griegos, Muficos. 


Mujicians. 


V life 5 {apart e). 


Ulyfes [aftde). 


Temerofo vengo, ay trifle ! 


Tremblingly I come, O forrow ! 


A ver a, Circe, ii es fuerza 


To fee Circe, fmce I'm fated 


Que como fabia la admire. 


For her wifdom to admire her, 


Y la admire como bella. 


To adore her for her graces. 


; Quien no fe hubiera fiado 


Who would not have fo far trufted 


Tanto de SI ! j quien no hubiera 


In himfelf ? oh ! who that waits here 


Hecho cautela el quedarfe ! 


Would not need a fage's caution ? 


Pues ya contra fu cautela 


Since, defpite of all his calmnefs. 


Es impofible olvidarla. 


It is hopelefs to forget her. 


Y es impolible quererla. 


And to love her is but madnefs. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


En efte hermofo jardin. 


Here — where Spring has call'd together 


Adonde la primavera 


In this bright and beauteous garden 


Llamo las flores a cortes. 


Her fweet parliament of flowers 


Para jurar por fu reina 


To fwear fealty to the faireft. 


A la rofa, que tefiida 


To their queen, the rofe, who wears 


En fangre de Venus bella 


Her imperial purple mantle, 


Purpura vifte real. 


Dyed in the blood of Venus fair, — 


Generofo honor de Grecia, 


I await thee, pride and marvel 


En tanto que de una caza 


Of all Greece, until the chafe 


Boreal el termino llega. 


Circles o'er our northern lands here. 


Que fera luego que el fol 


Which will be when finks the fun 


Vaya perdiendo la fuerza. 


With his burning beams abated. 



64 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR, 


Con muficas 7 feilines 


Here with fongs and feftive mufic 


Te efpero, porque la aufencia. 


I await thee, that the abfence 


Y memorias de tu patria 


And the memory of thy country. 


Entretenido diviertas. 


Thus amufed, may not unman thee. 


Vlifes. 


Ulyjes, 


Bellifima Circe, en quien 


Lovelieft Circe, thou in whom 


Por lo hermofa y lo difcreta. 


Beauty fo to fenfe is added. 


efta de mas el ingenio. 


That fuperfluous feems the fenfe. 


efta de mas la belleza. 


Or the beauty feems not wanted. 


No es menefter, que mi vida 


Needlefs is it that my life 


Tantas lifonjas te deba. 


Owe thee for fuch liberal largefs 


Para que rendido fiempre 


Of all kindnefs, though thus kneeling 


A tus plantas la agradezca ; 


Ever at thy feet 'twould thank thee ; 


Que el merecer adorar 


Since to merit leave to worfhip 


Tu hermofura .... 


Thy fair beauty .... 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Aguarda, efpei-a ; 


Stay, detain thee ; 


Que efte cortes curaplimiento 


Since this courteous compliment. 


No quiero, Ulifes, que fea 


I, Ulyfles, would not have thee 


Carta de favor, con que 


Ufe againft me as a licenfe 


A mi refpeto te atrevas ; 


To o'erftep refpeft's exaftnefs. 


Que una cofa es hofpedarte. 


One thing is a gueft's warm welcome. 


Agradecida a tus prendas. 


Such as worth like thine demandeth. 


Y otra es efcudiarte amores. 


And another, love to lift to. 


Vlifes. 


Ulyfes. 


Ni yo, Circe, me atreviera 


Nor would I, fair Circe, afk thee 


A decirlos ; que una cofa 


So to liften ; it is one thing 


Es cortefana fineza. 


With a courtier's tongue to flatter. 


Y otra fineza amorofa. 


With a lover's is another. 


Circe {aparte). 


Circe [nfide) 


\ Pluguiera a Dios que lo fuera ! — 


Would to God, he ufed the latter ! — 


En efta tejida alfombra. 


On this flower-inwoven floor. 


Que de colores diverfas 


Spread as with a coloured carpet 


Labro el Abril, a quien firve 


Ej rich April's hand, beneath 


De dofel la copa amena 


Thefe o'erhanging laurel branches. 


De un laurel, al fol hagamos 


Which — a green-leaf'd canopy. 


Apacible refiftencia. 


Tremble o'er it — to the ardent 


Vayan tomando lugares 


Sun a foft fliade let us make. 


Todos, y tu aqui te fienta. 


All take feats, thine here, I afk thee. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT 65 


Ulifes. 


UlyjTes. 


Temo enojarte otra vez. 


Once again I fear to offend thee. 


Circe {apart e a Flerida^. 


Circe {afide to Flerida.) 


Flerida, a entabler empieza 


Flerida, be now enabled 


Lo que has de iingir. 


The feign'd part I gave thee. 


{Van toman do lugares las damas y 


[ The ladies and gentlemen take their 


los galanes,y Ulises fe ajienta 


places, fo that Ulysses has Circe 


en medio de Circe y Flerida. 


at one fide of him, and Flerida at 




the other. 


Flerida {aparte d Ulifes). 


Flerida. 


Aqui 


Here 


Me fiento, porque quifiera 


I my place {^Xtdi, to make thee 


Daros a entender, Ulifes, 


Feel, Ulyifes, what thou oweft 


Lo que me debeis. 


To my favour. 


Lijidas {aparte). 


Lyfidas {afide). 


I Que llegan 


unhappy 


I A ver mis ojos ? ay cielos ! 


Eyes of mine, what fight to fee ! 


i FJerida al lado fe fienta 


Can my miftrefs by this ftranger 


De Ulifes, 7 con el habla ? 


Sit and whifper in his ear ? — 


i Denme los cielos paciencia ! 


ye heavens, full patience grant me ! 


Antiftes [aparte). 


Antifies {afide). 


\ Infelices de nofotros. 


Ah ! unhappy we, if now. 


Si a eftas lifonjas fe entrega 


By thefe falfe fair flatteries dazzled. 


Ulifes ! pues tarde, 6 nunca 


Yields Ulyfl^es, late or never 


Daremos la vuelta a Grecia. \Vafe. 


Shall we back to Greece be wafted. 




{Exit. 


Mufica. 


Song with Mufic. 


Solo el filencio teftigo 


Silence only, ah ! I feel 


Ha de fer de mi tormento. 


Muil be witnefs of my woe ; 


Y aun no cabe lo que liento 


Though my fufrering doth outgrow 


En todo lo que no digo. 


Even the all that I conceal. 


Sale Arsidas. 


Enter Arsidas. 


Arfidas (d Circe). 


Arfidas {to Circe), 


Si para ver fus defdichas 


If to fee his own misfortunes 


Siempre ha tenido licencia 


Ever hath a wretch free accefs. 


Un trifte, porque el pefar 


Since the gloomy gates of grief 


A nadie cerro las puertas. 


Shut not out the humbleft fadnefs. 


No te admires que la tome 


Wonder not that I avail me 



66 



EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 



Yo, y que a tus jardines venga, 
Pues he de mirar mis zelos, 
A mirarlos de mas cerca. 

Circe, 
Yo no doy fatisfacciones ; 
Pero huelgome que feas 
Teftigo de efto, porque, 
Sin que yo las de, las tengas. 

Arfidas. 
Pues fiendo afi, y que ya Ulifes 
Ella a la mano derecha, 
Como efcogido, yo tomo, 
Como dejado, la izquierda. 

Circe. 
Pues habemos de pafar 
Aqui el ardor de la fiefta, 
Porque una aguda cueftion 
Mas a todos entretenga, 
Haz, FJerida, una pregunta, 

Y cada uno la defienda. 

Flerida (aparte). 
Dire lo que a mi me pafa, 
Porque Lifidas lo entienda. — 
Danteo ama a Lifis Bella, 

Y Lifis manda a Danteo 
Difimular fu defeo ; 
Silvio olvida a Clori, y ella 
Manda, que finja querella ; 
Danteo, amando, ha de callar ; 
Silvio, no amando, moftrar 
Que ama : fiendo efto forzofo, 
I Cual es mas dificultofo, 
Fingir, 6 dilimular ? 

un/es. 

Difimular el que amo, 
Lo mas dificil ha fido. 

Arfidas, 
Fingir el que no ha querido, 
Mas dificil juzgo yo. 



Of the boon, and feek thy gardens ; 
Since if I muft jealoufy fee, 
Beft to fee it near and naked. 

Circe. 
Satisfadlion for fufpicions 
I ne'er give, although it glads me 
That you witnefs this, fince I 
Give them not, and yet you have them. 

Arfidas. 
This then being fo, and fince 
On thy right hand fits the favoured 
Gueft, Ulyfles, on thy left 
Will I feat me, the forfaken. 

Circe. 
Since v^e here intend to pafs 
The fiefta's burning ardour. 
That feme fubtle play of wit 
May amufe us w^hile it lafteth, — 
Flerida, a queftion ftart 
Which we all in turn muft anfwer. 

Flerida {afide). 
What has pafs'd I'll tell, and truft 
Lyfidas may underftand me. — 
Laon loveth Lyfis fair. 
Yet fhe doth of him require 
To difl'emble his defire ; 
Silvio is free as air. 
Yet is forced to afFe6l defpair ; 
Laon loves, yet hides his pain ; 
Silvio's free, yet wears the chain. 
Thus coerced the two, I afk. 
Which is the feverer tafk, — 
To difi^emble or to feign ? 

Ulyfes. 
The moft difficult muft be 
To diflemble where one loves. 

Arfidas. 
Feigning when no paffion moves 
Seems more difficult to me. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 67 


Cafandra. 
Efta opinion me agrado. 

Arquelao. 
Yo eftotra pienfo feguir. 


Cajfandra. 
That I hold inftinftively. 

Archelaus. 
I the other view maintain. 


Clori. 


Chloris. 


I Quien dilimula el fentir ? 


Who can hide the heart's fond pain ? 


Lifidas. 
I Y quien fingira el amar ? 


Lyjidas. 
Love can have no imitator. 


Thijbe, 
Lo mas es difimular. 


Thijhe. 
To diffemble is the greater. 


Timantes. 


Timantes. 


Lo menos es el fingir. 


'Tis the leiTer tafk to feign. 


Vlifes, 
El hombre, que enamorado 


Ulyfes. 
He who loves (it is confefs'd 


Efta, (quien lo efta no ignora. 
Que efto es afi) a cualquier hora 
Trae conligo fu cuidado ; 


By all hearts that own Love's power), 
Carries with him every hour 
Care and trouble in his breafl ; 


El que finge no ; olvidado 


He who feigneth love's unreft 


Puede ellar, hafta llegar 
De fingir tiempo y lugar : 
Luego, li fu afedo es juez, 
Uno fiempre, otro tal vez. 


Feeleth nought that thefe refemble 
Till the time and place to tremble 
At and in come round ; deciding 
'Twixt the fleeting and abiding; 


Mas cuefta el difimular. 


Then 'tis greater to diffemble. 


Arfidas. 
La mifma razon ha fido 


Arfidas. 
For the reafon you exprefs 


La que me da la vidoria. 
Configo trae fu memoria 
Quien ama ; quien finge, olvido : 
Luego el que ama no ha podido 
Olvidarfe de fentir; 


I may claim the viftory : 
He who loves brings memory. 
He who feigns, forgetfulnefs ; 
One is powerlefs to reprefs 
The remembrance of his pain ; 


Quien finge si, pues ha de ir 
Tras la ocafion que fe pierde. 


That the other can is plain. 
Since 'tis ufed but as a cover. 


Sin que nadie fe lo acuerde : 


And forgotten when 'tis over ; 


Luego mas cuefta el fingir. 

Vlifes. 
El fingir fe trae configo 


Therefore greater 'tis to feign. 

Vlyffes. 
He who feigns muft alfo know 


Un cuidado tambien, pues 
Batalla es fingir ; mas es 


Conftant care, for feigning is 
A warfare ; but this war of his 


Batalla fin enemigo ; 


Is a fight without a foe ; 



68 



EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR, 



La del que ama no ; teftigo 
Es uno, 7 otro pefar : 
Elle tiene que triunfar 
De muchos afeftos ciego ; 
Aquel de uno folo : luego 
Mas es el dilimular. 

Arfidas. 
Mayores afeftos miente. 
Que el que fiente un mal cruel, 

Y le dilimuia, aquel 

Que le dice, y no le fiente. 
Pruebafe ello claramente. 
Si un reprefentante a oir 
Vamos, porque perfuadir 
Nos hace entonces que amo, 

Y un enamorado no : 
Luego mas es el fingir. 

VViJes. 
Yo iiento efto. 

Arfidas, 

Eftotro yo. 
\I^ieten mano a la efpada, 
Circe, 
I Que es efto ? { pues como ali 
Hablais delante de mi ? 
Duelos del ingenio no 
El acero los lidio : 

Y afi, para que falgamos 

De la cueftion en que eftamos, 
Defde el empunado acero 
Hoy a la experiencia, quiero. 
Que la duda remitamos. 
Ulifes no ama, y defiende 
Que es mas zelar un ardor ; 
Arfidas ama en rigor, 

Y que es mas fingirle entiende ; 

Y afi mi ingenio pretende 
La cueftion averiguar : 

Los dos la habeis de moftrar 



That the lover's is not fo, 
Witnefs forrows that afTemble, 
Witnefs fears that make him tremble 
For his leaguer'd hope nigh loft : 
This fights one, but that a hoft ; 
Then 'tis greater to diffemble. 

Arfidas. 
Hard albeit to conceal. 
Yet 'tis falfe to fay one feeleth 
Equal heart-pangs who concealeth. 
And who feigns but does not feel ; 
This I prove by an appeal 
To the aftor's mimic pain ; 
When we liften to his ftrain. 
We believe his paffion real. 
Though we know 'tis all ideal ; — 
Therefore greater 'tis to feign. 

Vblfes, 
This I feel. 

Arfidas. 
The other I. 
\T hey put their hands to their /words. 
Circe. 
What is this ? and can it be 
That you fpeak thus before me P 
With the fword we ne'er fhould try 
Wit-joufts to conclude thereby. 
Thus that we may pretermit 
The difpute that here is knit, 
Without clenching fwords to aid it. 
By a trial I'll evade it. 
And refer the doubt to it. 
Free of love, UlyfTes holdeth 
Harder 'tis to hide love's fire ; 
Arfidas, who's all defire. 
Thinks to feign, more pain enfoldeth. 
Of the truth that each upholdeth 
Thus I mean to manifeft : — 
Let the two be put to teft 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 69 


Hoy conmigo ; y fin reiiir. 


In my perfon ; uncomplaining 


Tu, UHfes, has de fingir. 


Thou, Ulyfles, play love's feigning ; 


Tu, Arfidas, difimular. 


Arfidas, conceal thy beft. 


Y el que en la experiencia hiciere 


And who better doth afFeft 


Primera demoftracion. 


His afligned part to-day. 


Por premio de k cueftion 


Guerdon of this mimic fray. 


Una rica joya efpere. 


A rich jewel may expeft. 


Arjidas. 


Arfidas. 


Mi amor aceptar no quiere 


My true love cannot accept 


El partido, pues la llama 


A partition which concealeth 


Ha de ocultar que le inflama ; 


What my burning heart revealeth. 


Y Ulifes no ha de fingir. 


Light the part Ulyfles playeth. 


Pues nada finge en decir 


Since he feigns not if he fayeth 


Que te ama, fi te ama. 


That he loves, when love he feeleth. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Sofpechas fon de tus zelos. 


This thy jealous thoughts betray ; 


Y ello ha de fer. 


Be it fo, howe'er it move thee. 


Ulifes. 


Ulyfes. 


Defde aqui 


I henceforth pretend to love thee. 


Finjo fer tu amante. 




Circe (aparte). 


Circe {afide). 


Afi 


Heaven but point me out a way 


Abran camino los cielos. 


That to fhow I dare not fay. 


Para explicar mis defvelos. 




Arjtdas. 


Arfidas. 


Yo difimulo, que no 


I henceforth pretend that I 


Te quiero, pues me oblige 


Love thee not, and thus comply 


Tu precepto. 


With thy precept. 


Circe {apart e). 


Circe {afitde). 


Defta fuerte 


In this fafhion. 


Al uno y al otro advierte 


I my heart's new waken'd paflion 


Mi amor lo que defeo. 


Indicate to both thereby. 


Flerida {apart e a Circe). 


Flerida {afide to Circe). 


Si le das a cada uno 


If from thee in feparate ihares 


Un cuidado, i como, ay Dios ! 


Each a fingle care muft rue. 


Quieres, que yo tenga dos ? 


Canft thou wifh that I have two ? 


Pues en mal tan importune 


Since in haplefs love aifairs 


Son muchos cuidados uno. 


One care holds a thoufand cares. 



70 EL MAYOR ENCJNro AMOR. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


I Si ambos los has de tener. 


If thou'rt forced the two to hold. 


Quien te metio, di, en faber 


Thou thereby art lefs controll'd ; 


Cual de los dos en rigor 


What availeth thee to know 


Era cuidado mayor. 


Which care works the weightier woe. 


Pues no habias de efcoger ? 


Since to choofe thou art not told. 


\_^iere irfe. 
Arfidas. 
Circe fe va, ingrata y bella, 
Y aunque fu aufencia fenti. 


\She is about retiring. 
Arfidas. 
Circe goes, and though my trembling 
Heart may for her abfence ache. 


No la feguire ; que afi 
Dilimulare el querella. 


I the cruel fair forfake. 

Thus my love of her diflembling. 


Vlifes. 
Circe fe aufenta ; tras elk 


Vlyjes. 
Circe goes, and I refembling 


Ire, aunque mi mal infiero. 


One who 'neath fome charm doth move, 


Por mollrarla que la quiero. 


Follow her to ihow my love. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


I Donde, Ulifes, vas ? 


Whither goeft thou ? 


Vlifes. 

Tras ti. 


VlyPs. 

After thee. 


Que eres el fol, de quien fui 


Sun, whofe fun-flower I mull be ; — 


Girafol ; vida no efpero. 


Till thy fweet light from above 


Aufente tu roficler ; 


Dawns on me no life I know ; 


Y afi tus reflejos figo. 


Therefore where thou fhin'ft, I go. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Arfidas, ven tu conmigo. 


Arfidas, come thou with me. 


Arfidas. 
Ten go otra cofa que hacer ; 


Arfidas. 
Pardon me, it cannot be. 


Perdona, no puede fer. \Vafe. 

Circe {aparte). 
Bien a los dos confidero 


I a different duty owe. \_Exit. 

Circe {afide). 
In this primal teft the two 


En el combate primero. 

J O li efte amor, li efte olvido. 


Have the fight gone bravely through. 
Thus adored, and thus difdain'd. 


Uno no fuera fingido. 


Would the real love vi^ere feign'd ! 


Y otro fuera verdadero ! 


And the feign'd love were but true ! 


{Vanfe todosy y Flerida detiene 


[Exeunt all but Flerida, who 


a Ulises. 


detains Ulysses. 


Flerida. 


Flerida. 


i Oye, Ulifes ! 


Lift, Ulyfles ! 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT 71 


Ulifes, ^ 


Ulyjfes. 


^- Que me quieres ? 


Call'ft thou me ? 


Flerida. 


Flerida. 


Efloy tan agradecida 


Ah ! the gratitude I'd Ihow thee 


A la deuda de mi vida. 


For the debt of life I owe thee 


Que hafta decirte, que eres 


Is fo great, that, till to thee 


Quien hoy en ella prefieres 


I declare it openly. 


Sus fentidos, no tendre 


I can find nor peace nor reft 


Sofiego en ellos ; porque 


In the fenfes thou haft bleft ; 


Es el agradecimiento 


Since a warm acknowledgment 


Ei mas precifo argumento 


Is the ftrongeft argument 


Para probar una fe. 


Of a true and faithful breaft. 


Ulifes. 


Ulyjfes. 


De tus penas obligado. 


Though thy pain's unnatural laws 


Decir puedo, y afligido. 


Muft have moved the flintieft heart. 


Que antes de haberlas fabido. 


I can fay their bitter fmart 


Ya me habian lallimado. 


Pain'd me ere I knew their caufe. 


No debes a mi cuidado 


Then before you thank me, paufe ; 


Lo que por ti no hice alii. 


Thanks to me you do not owe. 


Cuando a la luz te volvi ; 


Thanks you do not owe me, no. 


Porque tu no tienes, no. 


For reftoring you to light. 


Que agradecer lo que yo 


Service can at beft be flight 


No fupe que hacia por ti. 


Given to one we do not know. 


Ahora si que debieras 


Wouldft thou now my wifhes meet, 


Mi defeo agradecer. 


Truft me, if that debt furvives. 


Pues almas qulfiera fer. 


If I had a thoufand lives. 


Para que tu las tuvieras. 


I would lay them at thy feet. 


Flerida. 


Flerida. 


Aunque acciones lifonjeras. 


Let this flattering aft complete 


Agradezca fu trofeo 


What my words have fail'd to prove. 


Con mis brazos mi defeo : — 


All my gratitude and love : — 


[Jbrazale. 


\_Em braces him. 


J Yo mifma de mi me admiro 1 


Self-furprife amazeth me ! 


[aparte. 


[At the moment of their embracing. 


[Jl ir d darfe los brazos falen por 


Circe and Lysidas appear at 


dos puertas Circe y Lisidas. 


different doors. 


Lifidas [Cada uno aparte). 


Lyfidas {afide.) 


I Que es efto, cielos, que miro ? 


What is this, O heavens ! I fee ? 



72 



EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR, 



Circe. 
I Que es ello, diofes, que veo ? 

Lifidas. 
El Griego Ulifes es quien 
Darme vida y muerte efpera. 

Circe. 
Bien que fingiefe quifiera. 
No que fingiefe tan bien. 

Lijidas. 
Muerte mis zelos me den. 

Circe, 
i Mas de que debo quejarme ? 

Lijidas. 
J La vida intenta quitarme. 
Que me ha dado Ulifes, cielos ! 
Porque darme vida y zelos, 
No deja de fer matarme. 

Flerida {a Ulifes). 
Ellare, como te digo, 
De noche en eie jardin. 
Que cae fobre el mar, a fin 
De que el folo fea tefligo 
Del afefto a que me oblige. 

Ulifes.^ 
Flerida, no es groferia 
Que refponda la voz mia 
Que no te ha de obedecer ; 
Pues es mas defaire fer 
Amada por cortesia. 
Yo he de fingir fer amante 
De Circe, y no lo fingiera. 
Si otro favor admitiera 
Tan poco firme y conftante. 
No el defengaiio te efpante ; 
Que aunque de mi penfamiento 
Otro haya fido el intento, 
Cefo ; que en el mal que figo. 
Solo el iilencio teftigo 
Ha de fer de mi tormento. [Fafe. 



Circe {ajtde). 
What a fight ! ye powers above ! 

Lyjidas {ajide). 
By the Greek UlyfTes' fpell 
Muft I death as life attain ? 

Circe {aJtde). 
Though I wifh'd that you fhould feign. 
Ah ! you fhould not feign fo well. 

Lyjidas {aJide), 
Jealoufy doth ring my knell ! — 

Circe (aJide). 
Wherefore though fhould I complain ? 

Lyjidas. 
Heavens ! UlyfTes would again 
Of that life he gave deprive me ! 
Since 'tis worfe than death to give me 
Life fo link'd with jealous pain. 

Flerida to UlyJJes. 
I to-night will wait for thee 
In the garden o'er the fea. 
Since my grateful heart would only. 
Of its utterance, have that lonely 
Silent fcene its witnefs be. 

UlyJJes.^ 
Lady, if my voice replieth 
With refufal, it denieth 
Not through want of courtefy, 
Since affefted love to thee 
Far lefs courtefy implieth. 
I, thou know'ft, muft feign to be 
Circe's lover : 'twere not feigning, 
If my fuit to her difdaining, 
I elfewhere fhould bend the knee ; 
Let my candour pain not thee : — 
Other homage do I owe. 
Other love I fain would fhow. 
But unfpoken muft conceal. 
Silence only, ah ! I feel, 
Muft be witnefs of my woe ! [Exit. 



— ■ ■ — ■ ■ -" - 

LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT -ji 


Flerida, 


Flerida. 


No pudiera refponder 


A more fortunate reply 


Mas a mi contento nada ; 


Fate could never have devifed ! 


Pues de verme defpreciada, 


Since to fee myfelf defpifed 


Soy la primera muger, 


Firft of womankind am I 


Que gufto Uego a tener. 


Who a pleafure feel thereby. 


Lifidas {aparte). 


Lyfidas {ajide). 


Que efpero ? Mas ay de mi ! 


Why delay ? But, dire diftrefs ! 


Que ella Circe ingrata alii. 


Circe's there, the mercilefs. 


Ocafion efperare 


I a better time mull plan 


De quejarme, fi pod re. 


To expoftulate, if I can. 


Flerida. 


Flerida. 


I Aqui eftas, feiiora ? 


Wert thou here, Seiiora ? 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Si. 


Yes. 


Flerida. 


Flerida. 


I Luego ya bien entablado 


Saw you then how I expended 


Lo que me has mandado habras 


All my art in the part I play'd 


Viflo? 


By your orders ? 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Si, Flerida, y mas 


You obey'd 


De lo que te habia mandado. 


Even more than I intended. 


Flerida, 


Flerida. 


Encareci mi cuidado 


Woe is me ! I thus offended. 


Con afedlo, ay de mi ! cuanto 


Fancying that you wilh'd for fuch 


Supe. 


Feint of fondnefs. 


Circe, 


Circe. 


Deja afefto tanto, 


Ceafe ! Thy touch 


Flerida, que amando muero ; 


Ice-like chill'd my heart and brain ; 


Y bien que lo fin] as quiero. 


Ah ! I die of love ! — to feign ? 


Mas no que lo finjas tanto. 


Yes, but not to feign fo much. 


Demas, que li en los primeros 


Nay, if thus I fadly rue 


Lances pierdo los fentidos. 


This firft feint fo unpropitious. 


No quiero zelos fingidos. 


I defire not by fiftitious 


Que fepan a verdaderos. 


Jealoufies to learn the true. 


Tus afedlos lifonjeros 


Ceafe then with fond wiles to woo. 


Cefen, pues que fu caftigo 


Since I pay for thy appeal 


Fingido fue tal conmigo. 


With fuch feign'd pain, that I feel 


Que no digo fu tormento ; 


Words are weak to fpeak my woe. 



74 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR, 


y aim no cabe lo que liento 


Though my fuiFering doth outgrow- 


En todo lo que no digo. [l^afe. 


Even the all that I conceal. [Exit. 


Flerida. 


Flerida. 


I Quien mas necio extremo vio ? 


Who has feen more wild conceit ? 


I Hay mas penas, que por mi 


Can this moment bring excefs 


Pafen efte inftante ? 


Of the pain I fulFer ? 


Lifidas, 


Lyjidas {advancing). 


Si; 


Yes; 


Que aun ahora falto yo. 


Without me 'twere incomplete : 


No, Flerida hermofa, no 


But I come not to repeat 


Porque a quejarme me obligo. 


Vain complaints, alas ! not fo. 


Porque para mi cailigo. 


Since, fair Flerida, I know 


Que efto hable, que ello vea. 


From the things I hear and fee. 


No quiero mas de que fea 


Silence only, woe is me ! 


Solo el filencio tertigo. 


Muft be witnefs of my woe. 


Flerida. 


Flerida. 


Lifidas, fi has efcuchado 


Lyfidas, if audibly 


Lo que a Ulifes dije aqui. 


What I told UlyiTes floated 


Tambien lo que Circe a mi 


To thine ear, thou muft have noted 


Es fuerza que hayas notado. 


Alfo Circe's words to me. 


No lince para el cuidado. 


Be not then to mifery 


Y ciego para el con ten to 


Lynx-eyed, and to joy but blind : — 


Eiles ; que efte iingimiento, 


If the part to me aflign'd 


Si fue caufa de mi engaiio. 


Caufes grief by its deceiving 


Tambien, tambien defengaiio 


Likewife too in undeceiving 


Ha de fer de mi tormento. 


Muft I flill my torment find. 


Lifidas. 


Lyjidas. 


De un trifle el rigor es tal. 


'Tis the torment of the fad. 


Que, aunque mal y bien eften 


That though good and evil fliould 


Iguales, duda del bien 


Seem alike, they doubt the good. 


El credito que da al mal. 


And give credence to the bad. 


Uno y otro en mi es mortal ; 


Both a mortal anguifli add 


Y afi, al bien y al mal atento, 


To my fuflering, I would fain 


Flerida, aufentarme intento 


Flerida forget the twain. 


De aquefte monte cruel. 


And this cruel mountain flee, 


Que con fer tan grande, en el 


Which however vaft it be 


Aun no cabe lo que fiento. [Fafe. 


Cannot compafs all my pain. [Exit. 


Flerida. 


Flerida. 


Oye, efcucha ! — Mas j ay cielos ! 


Liften ! hear me ! — But, ah me ! 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 7s 


I Con que podran mis enojos 


How can all my tears and lighs 


Detenerle, fi los ojos 


Hold him here, when even the eyes 


No pueden, que en fus defvelos 


Cannot do fo, though we fee 


Remoras Ton de los zelos ? 


Oft their light fcares jealoufy. 


En vano, ay de mi ! le ligo ; 


It is vain, oh ! woe the day ! 


No a explicar mi mal me obligo. 


To purfue him, vain to flay 


Pues que no cabe, no ignoro, 


Doubts that o'er his heart are creeping, 


Aun nada de lo que lloro. 


Let me then in filent weeping 


En todo lo que no digo. \^Vafe. 


Wail the grief I mult not fay. {^Exit. 


Monte. 


A Mountain. 


Sale Clarin. 


Enter Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Engafiada Circe bella 


Circe fair, by me deceived 


(Que en efefto las mugeres, 


(Since 'tis eafieft of all women 


Que faben mas en el mundo. 


To impofe on thofe who are 


Se enganan mas facilmente). 


Wifeft in all kinds of knowledge). 


Agradecida me dijo 


Circe fair, as I have faid. 


Que a elle monte me viniefe. 


In a grateful moment told me 


Y que en hallandome folo, 


To this mountain to repair. 


A Brutamonte le diefe 


And to fhout out Brutamonte 


Voces, que al inftante el tal 


When I found myfelf alone. 


Brutamonte, fea quien fuere. 


And that he upon the moment 


Me traeria un gran teforo. 


Would, whoe'er he be, confer 


Solo eftoy, ya no hay que efpere. 


Some moll precious gift upon me. 


Brutamonte ! — No refponde ; 


I am now alone, why wait ? 


Brutamonte ! — No me entiende ; 


Brutamonte !— No refponfes ; 


A tres ira la vencida : 


Brutamonte ! — No one hears me ; 


Brutamonte ! 


Third and lafl time, — Brutamonte ! 


Sale Brutamonte gigante. 


Enter Brutamonte, a giant. 


Brutamonte, 


Brutamonte. 


Que me quieres ? 


At your fervice, what's your bufmefs ? 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Nada, fi fuere pofible. 


Nothing, faith, an it were only 


Es cuanto puedo quererte. 


Poflible to get away. 


Brutamonte. 


Brutamonte. 


Ya me has llamado, y ya fe 


You have call'd me, and the obje6l 



^e EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 


A lo que vengo ; que es efte 


Of your coming I difcover 


Recado que traigo. 


By the difpatch I carry. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


^Yno 


Can 


La fefiora Circe tiene 


Lady Circe have no other 


Otros pagecicos mas 


Little page but you to run 


Maneros, que le trajefen ? 


On her errands through the foreft ? 


Porque para mi ballara 


Quite enough for me were one 


Menor feis varas, 6 liete. 


Who was fix or feven yards fhorter. 


Brutamonte. 


Brutamonte. 


De mi fe firve, que foy 


She makes ufe of me, who am 


De Ciclopes defcendienre. 


From the Cyclops fprung, to fhow her 


Por mas mageilad, y efpero. 


Greater grandeur, and I hope. 


Antes que de aqui fe au fen ten 


Ere the Greeks depart thefe coafts here, 


Los Griegos, vengar en todos 


For the death of Polyphemus 


De Polifemo la muerte. 


To take vengeance on the whole herd. 


\Sacan mia area dos animales. 


\Tivo animals draw in a cheft. 


Clarin, 


Clarin. 


Poco hay que vengar en mi ; 


Little need you take on me: — 


Que yo no le toque, y fiempre 


Since I never touch'd him, no then. 


Le tuve, viven los cielos ! 


But the fame fear felt, by Heaven ! 


Tanto miedo como efte ; 


Towards him then, that now comes o'er 


Que otro hiperbole no se. 


me ; 


Con que mas encarecerle. 


I know no hyperbole 




Better can my terror fhow thee. 


Brutamonte. 


Brutamonte. 


Toma efta caja, que traigo 


See this cheft I here have brought thee. 


Para ti. 


Take it. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Bien. 


Good. 


Brutamonte. 


Brutamonte. 


Y agradece 


And thank the goddefs 


A Circe, que fu obediencia 


Circe, that obedient duty 


Atadas mis manos tiene. 


Unto her my ftrong hand holds here. 


Para que no te arrebate 


So that I do not uplift thee 


De un brazo, y contigo diefe 


With one arm, and hurl thee yonder 


De efotra parte del mar. 


Far amid the whelming fea-waves. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Lindo faque fuera efe ; 


What a game of ball, to hop there 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. jy 


Pero, aunque hiciera buen bote. 


Out fo far ! But, when I bounded 


I Quien de alia habia de volverme ? 


On the fea, who'd hit me home here ? 


Brutamonte. 


Brutamonte. 


Y li efto no hiciera, hiciera 


Ifldidn'tdo that, I'ddo 


Otra cofa. 


Something better. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Cual? 


What? 


Brutamonte, 


Brutamonte. 


Comerte 


Jull gobble 


De un bocado. 


You up in a bit. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Y aun no hubiera 


'T would fcarcely whet 


Harto para untar un diente. 


One of your teeth, fo fmall a morfel. 


Brutamonte. 


Brutamonte. 


]0 llegue el dia en que tenga 


May the day come foon when I 


Ella licencia ! 


Have that licence ! 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


J O no llegue 


May it not then 


Nunca, lino defpeado 


Ever come, but rather founder 


En el camino fe quede ! 


On the road before it comes here. 


Brutamonte. 


Brutamonte. 


Toma ]a caja, y en ella 


Take the cheft, and you will find 


Hallaras mas que quifieres. 


In it more than you could covet. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Un modo de defpedirte 


How to get you to take leave 


Quifiera hallar folamente. 


Is jull now my only problem. 


Brutamonte. 


Brutamonte. 


Pues yo me voy. 


Then I go. 


Clarin. 


Clarin, 


Haces bien. — 


You do quite right; — 


J Que gigantes tan cortefes \_aparte. 


How obliging and how courteous 


En efta tierra fe ufan, 


{afide. 


Que poquito fe detienen 


Are the giants of this country. 


En converfaciones donde 


Who their vifitations fhorten. 


Eftorban ! 


When they find their converfation 




Grows a bore ! 


Brutamonte. 


Brutamonte. 


Y cuantas veces 


And I, as often 


Me nombrares .... 


As you call me ... . 



78 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR, 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Que? 


Well > 


Brutamonte. 


Brutamonte, 


Vendre 


Will come 


A eftos paifes a verte. [f^afe. 


Here to fee you on the moment. \Exit. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Yo le ahorrare efe trabajo 


Well, that trouble I vv^ill fpare you 


Cuantas veces yo pudiere. — 


Every time I can, good monfter. — 


Fuefe ? Parece que si. 


Has he gone ? It feems he has. 


Aunque aqui no lo parece. 


Though perhaps it feems fo only. 


I Pero de que tengo miedo. 


But what need I fear ? He is 


Si es humilde y obediente. 


Mild and meek in his deportment, 


Un novicio de gigantes ? 


Quire a novice among giants. 


Y pues el teforo viene. 


Since a treafure I have gotten, 


I Quien me mete en difcurrir ? 


'Bout the bearer, or the bringer 


Traigale quien le trajere. 


Why fhould I difturb my noddle ? 


; Alto pues, abro la caja ! 


Courage then ! the cheft I'll open. 


Que la Have en ella tiene. 


With the key that's in the lock here. 


I Quien duda, que habra diamantes 


Who can doubt that here are diamonds 


Como el puiio, como nueces 


Bigger than my fill, and whole heaps 


Perlas, y como las bolas 


Of large pearls like nuts, and gems 


De los bolos los claveques? 


That like bowls roll o'er each other? 


\_Abre la caja, y fale una Duena. 


[He opens the box, from which a 


Mas, cielos ! que miro ? 


Duenna arifes. 




Heavens ! what's this I fee ? 


Duena. 


Duenna. 


Miras 


You fee 


A una mifera lirviente. 


A poor wretched fervant body. 


Que para fervir de efcucha, 


Who to play the part of fpy. 


Y parlar cuanto dijeres 


And to tell what may be fpoken 


De Circe, me manda que ande 


Againft Circe, is commanded 


Contigo acechando fiempre. 


Ever-liftening to efcort thee. 


Por efo en trage de dueiia 


Since I'm fent to liften, I 


Me envia, para que aceche. 


Thus duenna-like am clothed. . 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


\ Lindo teforo de chifmes 


What a treafure-trove of rags 


En la tal area me viene ! 


Have I in this cheft difcover'd ! 


^* Yo dueria, tras un gigante? 


Firft comes giant, then duenna : — 


Aqui falta folamente. 


Now the thing that's only wanted 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT 79 


Para que el triunfigurato 


To make all this transformation 


De caballeros noveles 


(Like to a knight-errant novel) 


Elle cabal, un enano. 


Finifh finely, is a dwarf. 


Duena. 


Duenna. 


Pues no faltara, fi es efe 


Then if that be fo, no longer 


El defeao.— Brunelillo ! 


Need you wait. — Here ! Brunelillo, 


Sal al punto. 


On the inftant. 


Sale un Enano. 


A Dwarf comes out. 


Enano. 


Dwarf. 


I Que me quieres, 


For what obje6l. 


Doiia Brianda ? 


Dame Brianda ? 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


I De donde 


Where did you come from. 


Sales, atomo viviente ? 


Living atom, pigmy wonder ? 


Enano. 


Dwarf. 


De mi cala, que lo es 


From my manfion, which you fee 


Eila caja, donde fiempre 


Is this box, where on your flioulder 


Acuellas me has de traer. 


You muft carry me henceforth. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


I Pues como aqui caber pueden 


How I marvel, can this box here 


Un enano y una duena. 


Hold a dwarf and a duenna. 


Si cualquiera de ellos fuele 


When there's fcarce for either of them 


No caber en todo el mundo ? 


Room enough in all the whole earth ? 


Duena. 


Duenna. 


Brunelillo, gente viene. 


Brunelillo, men come yonder. 


Y no es juilo que nos vean. — 


And 'twere wrong that they fliould lee us. 


Oye, doblenos, y cierre 


Hark you ! fold us fmooth, and cover 


La caja. 


Up the cheft. 


Enano, 


Dwarf. 


Circe lo manda. 


Remember, Circe 


Que fiempre al hombro nos lleve, 


Bids you bear us on your fhoulder. 


Y lo que dijere oigamos. 


And that what you fpeak we'll hear. 


Duena. 


Duenna. 


Y aun mas de lo que dijere. 


Ay, and more than will be fpoken. 


\_Metenfe en la caja y cierran. 


\They enter the box, which clofes. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


I Senores, que es lo que pafa 


What on earth am I to do 


Por mi ? que teforo es efte ? 


With my treafure, good Seiiores ? 



8o EL MATOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 


Vive Jupiter ! que juntos 


Jupiter ! my precious gems 


A fu cafcara fe vuelven. 


In their cafket now are cover'd : 


Aqui hay tram pa, vive Dios ! 


Oh ! there muft be trap-doors here ! 


Mas no, en la caja no tienen 


Yet the box contains no open. 


Por donde haberfe falido. 


Out through which they could have gone. 


I Que hare en confufion tan fuerte ? 


In fuch ftrong fix, how comport me ? 


Si de Circe no obedezco 


If the punilhment rejefting 


El caftigo que me ofrece. 


Which to me hath Circe ofFer'd, 


Otro mayor me dara. 


She a greater one may give me. 


Si es que otro fer mayor puede 


If a greater is concofted 


Que levar la caja. Pues 


Than to bear this box. I now 


Ahora veo claramente, 


Clearly can explain the problem 


Por que el gigante la trajo. 


Why a giant had to draw it. 


y los animales fuertes ; 


And two beafts as big as oxen ; 


Porque cofa tan pefada. 


Since fuch heavy baggage is 


Como una duena, no puede 


A duenna, that the ftrongeft 


Sufrirla, Uno un gigante 


Giant and two beafts to match him 


Y dos beflias Iblamente. — 


Muft unite them to uphold her. — 


I Quien compra duenas y enanos. 


Dwarfs ! Duennas ! come, who'll buy ? 


Como peines y alfileres ? 


Like the man who pins and combs fells. 


^ale Lebrel. 


Enter Lebrel. 


Lebrel{Para Jt). 


Lebrel {foliloquijing). 


j Que tai penfafe de mi 


Oh ! that thus could think of me 


Circe, y que a Clarin creyefe ! 


Circe, and truft Clarin's nonfenfe ! 


Huyendo vengo a elk monte. 


Flying do I feek this mountain, 


Donde a los diofes pluguiefe. 


And its guardian gods invoke here. 


Que al caftigo, que me efpera. 


That I may perchance find fhelter. 


Hallafe donde efconderme. 


From the wrath impending o'er me. 


Pondre, que aquefta es la hora. 


Now I'll bet fhe's thinking how 


Que efta trazando de hacerme 


In the beft way to transform me 


Sabandija deftos montes, 


To a beetle of thefe mountains. 


Gufarapo deftas fuentes. 


To a wet worm of thefe ponds here. 


Efte es Clarin, y aqui del 


Here is Clarin, and here I 


Sera razon que me vengue. — 


Will revenge the wrong he has done me. 


Huelgome de haberte hallado. 


Clarin, I'm o'erwhelm'd with joy 


Clarin. 


To have met thee. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Por mas que te huelgues, 


If thy load, then. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 8i 


No tanto como me pefa. 


Is fo great, mine's not lefs weighty. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Que vengo a darte la muerte. 


Since to kill thee I'm devoted. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Yo vengo a darte la vida. 


And to give thee life am I. 


L^^r^/. 


Lebrel. 


De que fuerte ? 


In vi^hat way ? 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Defla fuerte : 


In this way, know then. 


Circe, obligada de mi. 


Circe being obliged to me. 


En efta caja me ofrece 


In this cheft to me has ofFer'd 


Un teforo, y yo con el 


A great treafure, which as thine 


Pretendo fatisfacerte ; 


I'm determined to reftore thee ; 


Porque fi del bien hablar 


Since, if it is the reward, 


El premio, Lebrel, es efte. 


Friend Lebrel, of the civil-fpoken. 


Con dartele a ti, tendras 


By my giving it thee, thou'lt have 


El premio, que tu mereces. 


The reward thou'ft won fo nobly. 


I Puedes obligarme a mas 


Can you then oblige me more 


De que todo te lo entregue ? 


Than I do in giving the whole heap ? 


Toma la caja. 


Take the cheft. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


No quiero. 


I do not wifti you 


Que todo a darmelo llegues. 


To beftow the whole upon me ; 


Sino, pues me defenojas. 


But fmce you've appeafed my wrath. 


Que partamos igualmente. 


Be one half to each allotted. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Pues llevarafte la duena. 


Then do you take the duenna. 


Y yo el enano. 


And I'll take the dwarf. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


I Que quieres 


You mock me ; 


Decir en efo ? 


What do you mean ? 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


No fe. 


I do not know ; 


Tu lo veras, li la abrieres. 


But you'll fee all when you open. 


\_Pone la caja en otra parte, y 


[He places the chejl in another place y 


abrela Lebrel. 


and Lebrel opens it. 


Lebrel 


Lebrel 


Ponla aqui. Ya abierta efta. 


Place it here, 'tis open now. 



82 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 


\Baca Lebrel todo lo que dice. 


\_He takes out each article as he 




dejcribes it. 


1 Que joyas tan excelentes ! 


Oh ! what rich gems I behold here ! 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Son muy excelentes joyas .... 


Very precious gems they are ... . 


(Para el diablo, que las lleve.) 


(For the devil himfelf who bore them.) 


\aparte. 


{afide. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel 


Aquefta cadena efcojo. 


I feleft this pretty chain. 


Y efta para ti fe quede. 


And for you remains this other. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Ca que ? 


Pretty what ? 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Cadena ; y ahora 


This pretty chain ; 


De diamantes efte Fenix 


Now in turn to me belongeth 


Para mi, y efta Sirena, 


This refplendent diamond Phoenix, 


Toda de efmeraldas verdes. 


And this Siren emerald brooch here. 


Te dejo. 


I leave thee. 


Clarin {aparte). 


Clarin {afide). 


j Viven los cielos. 


Good gracious heavens ! 


Que es impofible, que hubiefe 


Can it be that he difcovers 


Diamantes donde hubo duenas ! 


Diamonds now where I found dwarfs ? 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Yo no quiero parecerte 


I don't wifh that you fuppofe me 


Codiciofo ; efto me bafta. 


Greedy ; fo I've had enough : 


Lo demas es bien te deje. — 


Of the reft I make thee owner. — 


I Quien no fe defenojara {^aparte. 


Who would not forego his anger 


Con teforo como efte ? 


\_afide. 


A bufcar a Libia voy. 


For a prize like this I hold here ? 


Y a dark cuanto quifiere. [f^afe. 


Libia now I go to feek. 




And I'll give her what {he choofes. 




[Exit. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


O yo eftoy borracho, 6 yo 


Either I am drunk, or I 


Sueno cofas diferentes. 


Dream now this, and now the other ; 


O he perdido mi jaicio. 


Or I have my fenfes loft. 


O tengo un grande accidente. 


Or have got ibme grief in ftore yet. 


O de Circe he hablado mal. 


Or 'gainft Circe wagg'd my tongue. — 


i Que joyas hallar pudiefe 


Jewels how could he behold here. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 



83 



Donde yo duenas y enanos I 
Mas yo las vi claramente, 
Y fupuefto que las hay, 
Tomare las que pudiere. 

\_Sale la Duena no mas del 
medio cuerpo, 
Duena, 
Senor, diga a Brunelillo 
Vuefa merced, que me dejc 
Hacer mi labor. 

[Sale el Enano. 
Enano. 

Senor, 
Digala ufted, que no llegue 
A lamerme la merienda. 

Duena. 
Tu mientes. 

Enano. 

Tu eres quien miente. 
[Jporreanfe y hundenfe. 

Clarin. 
I Que es lo qu€ pafa por mi ? 
i Valedme, diofes, valedme ! 
I Efta trajo Brutamonte ? 

Sale Brutamonte. 

Brutamonte. 
Que me mandas ? 

Clarin. 

i Que obediente 
Es toda aquefta familia ! 
j Con la prefteza que vienen 
En llamandolos ! — Senor 
Brutamonte, a quien profpere 
Jupiter con la falud. 
Que fu gigantez merece, 
Yo he vifto la caja, y yo 
Le ruego, que fe la lleve. 



Where I faw but dwarfs and damfels ? 
But I faw the gems with open 
Eyes, and now with open hands too 
Shall I make a haul and bolt hence. 

[The Duenna arifes half her 
height in the box. 
Duenna. 
Speak to Brunelillo, Sir, 
Bid him leave me at my work here 
Quietly, your worlhip. 

[The Dwarf rife s up. 
Dwarf. 

Sir, 
Tell her not to fpoil my pofTet, 
Pleafe your worlhip, with her licking. 

Duenna. 
Oh ! a lie. 

Dwarf 
On thy lide only. 
[They beat each other, and 
fink down. 
Clarin. 
What, oh ! what fate will befall me ? 
Help me ! help me ! all ye Gods here. 
Was it this brought Brutamonte ? 

Enter Brutamonte. 

Brutamonte. 
What are your commands ? 
Clarin. 

The promptnefs 
Of the family's furprifing! 
With what quicknefs they all hop here 
When you call them ! — Brutamonte, 
Noble Sir, whom Jove may profper 
With fufficiency of health 
For your giantfhip's big body, 
I have feen the cheft, and I 
Afk thee now to take it home hence ; 



84 ^^ MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR, 


Qaedefe para feiiores 


Living lumber like to this 


Eito de traftos vivientes ; 


May be lit for grand feiiores. 


Que no he menefter alhajas. 


But fine furniture that eats. 


Que coman, y no aprovechen. 


And is ufelefs, I don't covet. 


Brutamonte. 


Brutamonte. 


I Para efo fe llama a un hombre 


Is't for this, a man like me 


Como yo ? Eftoy por hacerle .... 


Thou dar'ft call on ? I am prompted . . . 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Por defhacerme dira. 


To do fomething pleafant, doubtlefs. 


Brutamonte. 


Brutamonte, 


Piezas ; y li le fucede 


To make bits of thee ; another 


Llamarme otra vez .... 


Time if thou doft call .... 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


No hara. 


I vsron't then. 


Brutamonte. 


Brutamonte. 


Por Jupiter ! que le eche 


By great Jove ! fo high I'll tofs thee 


Tan alto de un puntapie. 


With a kick, that when thou reacheft 


Que cuando a los cielos llegue. 


The remote celellial bodies. 


Ya llegue muerto de hambre ; 


Thou'lt have long fince died of hunger; 


Y vuelva, fi acafo vuelve. 


And thou'lt drop, if e'er thou droppeft. 


De los pajaros comido. 


On the earth, by birds half eaten. 


{Fafe. 


[Exit. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


\ Puntapie bien excelente ! 


Kick fupreme ! of kicks the model ! 


I Donde le hacen puntapies ? 


Where are fuch kicks to be purchafed ? 


No fe, vive Dios ! que hacerme 


I know not, as God's above me. 


Entre los tres enemigos 


What to do againft thefe three foes 


Del cuerpo. 


Of my body. 


Salen Astrea, Libia j Lebrel. 


Enter Astrea, Libia, and Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Un inftante breve 


Scarce a moment 


Habra, que le deje aqui 


Is it fince I left him here 


Con las joyas. 


With the jewels. 


Aftrea. 


AJlrea. 


Tiempo es elle 


Then 'tis proper 


De bufcarle, que efta rico. 


That we feek him, fince he is rich. 


Ven, Libia, conmigo a verle. 


Libia, come, let's feek our old friend. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT, 85 


Libia. 


Libia. 


Aqui efta. — Clarin, que hay ? 


Here he is. — How goes it, Clarin ? 


LebreL 


Lebrel, 


De que fufpiras ? 


Why thus figh? 


Jfirea. 


Aftrea. 


Que tienes ? 


What haft thou got there ? 


^ Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Tengo dueiia, tengo enano. 


I've a dwarf here, a duenna. 


y tengo gigante. 


And a giant alfo. 


Aftrea. 


AJirea. 


Vuelve, 


Nonfenfe, 


Y dinos, que es efo ? 


Tell us what it is. 


Clarin, 


Clarin, 


Es 


It is 


La duena, que me atormente. 


The duenna who's my torment, 


El enano, que me valga. 


'Tis the dwarf with whom I'm blefs'd 


Y el gigante, que me lleve. 


fo. 




'Tis the giant fworn to flog me. 


Aflrea. 


Aftrea. 


Eflas loco ? 


Are you mad ? 


Clarin, 


Clarin. 


A Dios pluguiera ! 


I would I were fo ! 


AJlrea. 


Aftrea. 


I Que modo de hablarme es efe ? 


What a way is this to have fpoken ! 


De otra manera Lebrel 


In another ftyle Lebrel 


A Libia habla, adora y quiere ; 


Speaks to Libia, worfliips, loves her. 


Pues una joya la ha dado. 


Since a jewel he has given her ; 


Y tu ninguna me ofreces 


And to me not one thou'ft oiFer'd 


De tantas. 


Of fo many. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Dejame, Aftrea, 


Ceafe, Aftrea ! 


Y no de joyas me tientes. 


And on jewels touch no longer. 


Que me haras defefperar. 


Since you'll drive me to defpair. 


Si a hablar mas en efo vuelves. 


If again you harp upon them. 


Foces {dentro). 


Voices {within). 


Por aca, por aca ! 


Hither! hither! — 


Circe {dentro). 


Circe {within). 


Sube, 


Upward ftill. 


Remontada garza, a hacerte 


Soaring heron, and transform thee 



^6 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 


Eflrella viva de pluma. 


To a living ftar of plumes ! 


AJirea. 


Aftrea. 


Circe es efta, que aqui viene ; 


Circe's voice ! this way fhe cometh : 


Yo no quiero que me vea. 


Here I would not have her fee me. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel 


i A Jupiter para fiempre ! 


Jove ! nor I upon the whole earth ! 


\Vanfe Libia, Astrea y Lebrel. 


\Exeunt Libia, Astrea, and 




Lebrel. 


Sale Circe. 


Enter Circe. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Por ver li Ulifes me ligue. 


To difcover if UlyiTes 


Me he perdido de mi genre. 


Follows, from my train Tve loft me. 


Y dejando a un tronco atado 


And unto a tree-trunk tying 


Efe zefiro obediente. 


My obedient zephyr courfer. 


Que fatigue, he de efperar 


Wearied with the chafe, I'll wait here 


Entre ellos alamos verdes. — 


Underneath thefe dark green poplars. — 


Quien efta aqui ? 


Who is there ? 


Clarin, 


Clarin. 


Un mentecato. 


A limple ninny. 


Un fucio, un impertinente, 


A poor moon-calf, a big blockhead. 


Un necio, un loco, un menguado. 


A born fool, an afs, a madman. 


Y un cuanto vufted quiliere. 


And what elfe your worlliip choofes. 


Saqueme, por Dios ! de dueiias. 


Free me, God's life ! from duennas. 


De hombres largos, y hombres breves, 


From thefe tall men, from thefe ftiort 


Aunque me convierta en mona. 


men. 




Though you make of me a monkey. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Yo lo hare, li efo pretendes. 


So I'll do, lince you have told me. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


No me tome la palabra 


Do not take me at my word 


Tan prefto, li le parece. 


Quite fo quickly, I implore thee. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Y porque me debas mas 


And that you may owe me more 


Que otros, que mi voz convierte. 


Than the others I transform here. 


Hare, que tengas tu voz 


I will leave to you your fenfes 


Y tu entendimiento. Vete 


And your voice. And now begone 


De aqui. 


hence. 




Quick! 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 87 


Clarin, 


Clarin. 


No \o dije yo 


In faith, I didn't mean it 


For tanto. 


Serioufly. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Un punto no efperes. — 


Don't wait a moment. — 


Hafla mirarfe a un efpejo, [aparte. 


Till he looks into a mirror, [ajide. 


Ya en fu forma no ha de verfe. 


He his own Ihape won't recover. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Si es que mona me has de hacer. 


If a monkey you will make me. 


Solo quiero merecerte. 


Let me for this favour hope then. 


Que fea mona de lo caro. 


That you make a nice ape of me. 


Mas que dormilona, alegre. — 


Brifk. and lively, and no fnorer, — 


Hombres monas, prefto habra 


Monkey-men there, foon you'll have 


Otro mas de vuellra efpecie. [Fafe. 


One more member of your order. 




{Exit. 


Sale Ulises. 


Enter Ulysses, 


Ulifes. 


Ulyffes. 


For mas que te he feguido. 


The quicker was my fpeed. 


Corto el aliento de efe bruto ha fido. 


The quicker fail'd the hot breath of my 


Si bien con hano raftro te feguia. 


fteed. 


Fues llevabas por feiias todo el dia. 


Following thy track along the devious 




way. 




Since in thy flight thou haft outftripp'd 




the day. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


De la caza canfada. 


Aweary with the chafe. 


A efte apacible fitio retirada 


To this retired and fylvan-fhaded place 


Me vine. Que has volado ? 


I came. Say, what has rifen ? 


Ulifes. 


Ulyfes. 


Un defeo, ay de mi ! tan remontado. 


A fond deli re, ah me ! from out its 


Que ofo con alto vuelo 


prifon, 


Calarfe entre las nubes de algun cielo. 


Which dared in lofty flight 


Donde al fuego vecino. 


To pierce the clouds of one fweet hea- 


Con ligereza fuma. 


ven fo bright. 


Abrafada la pluma. 


That from the glowing fky 


Subio defeo, y maripofo vino. 


Through which it foar'd a paflion-wing'd 




deflre. 




With plumage all afire. 



88 EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR. 




Fell back to earth, a flame-linged but- 


Circe. 


terfly. 

Circe. 


I De la caza, pregunto, que has volado ? 


I fpoke of hawking, when I afk*d. What 
rofe ? 


Ulifes, 
En elk te refpondo, que un cuidado. 


Uly/fes. 
And I replied, a woe of tendereft woes. 


Circe. 


Circe, 


I Pues como a mi en fentido 
Equivoco refpondes atrevido ? 

un/es. 

Como pienfo que fabes, que ella culpa 
Anticipada tiene la difculpa. 

Circe, 


Why thus forgetful of my dignity, 
Dofi thou Hill make equivocal reply ? 

Uly/fes, 
Becaufe I thought the tafk thyfelf had 

given. 
Might have fuppofed fuch fault would 
be forgiven. 

Circe. 


Ah SI, no me acordaba .... 


Ah ! yes, I had forgotten .... 


Ulifes {apart e), 

Yo eiloy loco. 


Ul^/fes {afide). 

I am mad. 


Circe. 


Circe, 


De la porfia de hoy. 

Ulifes {aparte). 

Ni yo tampoco. 
Circe. 


To-day *s difpute. 

Ul:^/fes {afide). 
'Twere better that I had. 
Circe. 


Que dices ? 

un/es. 

Que por ella me atrevia. 
Circe, 


What do you fay ? 

Uly/fes, 
'Twas that impell'd my fuit. 
Circe. 


Por ella? 


That only ? 


un/es. 

Si. 


Uly/fes, 
Yes. 


Circe [aparte). 
\ O mal haya la porfia ! — 


Circe {a/ide). 
Accurfed be the difpute ! — 


Mas pues fingidos fon efos extremes, 


Well, fince thefe feignings but falfe 


Hablemos en la caza fola. 


flatteries feek, 




Let us fpeak of the chafe alone. 


un/es. 

Hablemos. 


Uly/fes. ■ 

So let us fpeak : — 


Luego que tu te retirafte de una 


You fcarce had gone, when near 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT 



Guarnecida laguna, 
Efpejo de la hermofa primavera, 
Se remonto una garza, que altanera 
Tanto a los cielos fube. 
Que fue a un tiempo aqui pajaro, alii 
mube ; 

Y entre el fuego y el viento, 
Arbitro igual, (o valgome fu aliento !) 
De fuerte fe interpufo, que las alas 
En la diafana esfera, en la fuprema, 
O las hiela, 6 las quema, 

Cuando las enarbola, 6 las abate. 
Tan a compas entre las dos las bate. 
Que aqui elevadas e inclinadas luego^ 
Aqui dan en el aire, alii en el fuego. 
Geroglifico era 

La garza entre la una y otra esfera 
De alguno, que aqui ofado, alii cobarde, 
Se hiela a un tiempo, y arde, 

Y entre el aire y el fuego fe embaraza. 



Circe. 
Efo no es de la caza. 

Ulifes. 
Es de la pena mia. 
Que es en parte tambien volateria. 

Circe. 
Hubierame ofendido. 
Si no fupiera, Ulifes, que es fingido. 

Ulifes {apart e). 
I A Jupiter pluguiera ! 



The margin of a lake, that cryftal-clear 
Seem'dafmooth mirror for the beauteous 

Spring, 
A heron rofe, fo fudden its quick wing 
Bore it amid the fky elate and proud. 
That at one moment it was bird and 

cloud. 
And 'twixt the wind and fire, 
(Would that fuch courage had my heart's 

defire !) 
So interpofed itfelf, that its bold wings 
WheeHng alternate near. 
Now the diaphanous, now the higher 

fphere. 
Were burnt or froze. 
As down they fank or upward foaring 

rofe. 
In all the ficklenefs of fond defire^ 
Now in the air and now amid the fire. 
An emblem as it were, 
This heron was, betwixt each oppofite 

fphere. 
Of one who is both cowardly and bold. 
Can burn with paffion, and yet freeze 

with cold. 
And 'twixt the air and fire ftill doubts 

his place. 

Circe. 
You fpeak not of the chafe. 

Ulyfes, 
I fpeak of my heart's care, 
Which feems a quarry for each fond 

defpair. 

Circe. 
This would have offended me again. 
Did I not know, Ulyffes, that you 

feign. 

U/yfes {afide). 
Ah ! would to Jupiter, 'twere fo. 



90 EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR, 


Circe [aparte). 


Circe {afide). 


J Pluguiera al cielo, ay Dios ! que no 


Ah! would to Heaven, 'tv^ere other- 


lo fuera ! 


v^rife I knov^ ! — 


Y pues que folo eftas aqui conmigo, 


And fince you're here alone with me, 


No finjas, y proligue. 


yoa need 




Not further feign ; proceed. 


un/es. 


Ulyffes. 


Ya profigo. 


I thus proceed : — 


Atomo ya la garza apenas era. 


Scarce had the heron dwindled to a Ipeck 


Cuando, defenhetrada la cimera 


On the far Iky, when from about the neck 


Que el capirote enlaza. 


Of a gerfalcon I unloofed the band 


Mi mano un gerifalte defembraza. 


Which held his hood ; a moment on 


A quien, porque en priiion no fe pre- 


my hand 


fuma. 


I foothed the impatient captive, his dark 


La pluma le halagaba con la pluma. 


brown 


Y el, como hambriento eftaba. 


Proud feathers fmoothing with careffings 


Duro el laton del cafcabel picaba. 


down; 


Apenas a la luz reftituidos 


While he, as if his hunger did furpafs 


Se vieron otro y el, cuando atrevidos. 


All bounds, pick'd fharply on his bells 


Cuanta eftacion vacia 


of brafs. 


Paleftra es de los atomos del dia. 


Scarce were they back reftored to light. 


Corren los dos por paramos del viento. 


He and another, when in daring flight 


Y en una y orra punta. 


They fcaled heaven's vault, the vaft 


Efte fe aleja, cuando aquel fe junta ; 


void fpace where play 


Y el bajel ceniciento 


In whirling dance the mote-beams of 


(Que bajel ceniciento entonces era 


the day, 


La garza, que velera 


Then down the deferts of the wind they 


Los pielagos fulco de otro elemento) 


float. 


Librarfe determina diligente, 


And up and down the iky 


Aunque navega fola. 


One flies away as the other fwoopeth 


Hechos remos los pies, proa la frente. 


nigh; 


La vela el ala, y el timon la cola. 


And then the aflien-colour'd boat 


j Mifera garza, dije, combatida 


(An aflien-colour'd boat it furely were. 


De dos contrarios ! bien, bien de mi vida 


That heron, that through fliining waves 


Imagen eres, pues fitiar la veo 


of air 


De uno y otro defeo. 


Furrow'd its way to fields remote) 




Refolving to be free and not to fail. 




Although alone it faileth now. 




Of feet made oars, of curved beak a prow. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 



Sails of its wings, and rudder of its tail ; — 
Poor wretched heron, faid I then, thy 

ftrife 
'Gainft two oppofing ills, are of my life 
Too true an image ; lince it is to-day 
Of two diflinft defires the haplefs prey. 

Circe. 
Now thou canll not excufe thee, iince 

'tis plain 
Thou ofFendeft, whether thou feigneft, 

or don't feign. 

Ulyfes. 
I can ; thy lover's part I would badly play. 
If at thy firft command I could obey. — 
'Gainft this, 'gainft that, as either doth 

alTail, 
It furl'd its wing, and droop'd its lan- 
guid fail. 
And placing its dazed head beneath the 

one, 
Truftingtofortune,likeaplummet-ftone 
Straight down it fell, we looking, from 

afar 
Saw it defcending, an incarnate ftar 
Through the dark fky. 
With the purfuing falcons ever nigh. 

thou ! if thou'rt the image of my 

thought, 
Be thou a warning too, with wifdom 

fraught. 
Let no delufive hope by thee be fhown. 
If in thy fate I muft forefee my own. 

Circe, 
Though this be feigning, it offends no 

lefs. 
Than if the feigning were all truthfulnefs ; 
Since if I bade thee feign, 
Atanother time, the lover'sanxious pain, 

1 alfo bade thee now not feign again. 



Circe. 
Ahora difculparte no has podido, 
Pues yerras, fi es fingido, 6 no es fingido. 



Ulifes. 
Si puedo ; fer tu amante no fingiera. 
Si a la primera vez te obedeciera. — 
A uno pues, y otro embate, 
Coge las alas, 6 las velas bate, 

Y poniendo debajo de la una 
La cabeza, fe deja a fu fortuna 
Venir a pique, cuando 

Nos parecio caer revoloteando 
Una encarnada eftrella, 

Y los dos gerifaltes iiempre en ella. 

Si ejemplo eres, o tu, a mi penfamiento, 
Se tambien efcarmiento, 

Y no me ofrezcas efperanza alguna. 
Si ha de defengaiiarme tu fortuna. 



Circe. 
Aunque fea fingido, todavia 
Es ya en ofenfa mia, 
Pues fi te habia mandado 
Fingir antes de ahora tu cuidado, 
Tambien te mande ahora 
A folas no fingirle. 



EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR, 



Vlijes, 

Pues, fenora. 
Si tu caftigo efpero, 
Siendo fingido, y fiendo verdadero, 
De verdadero ya el calligo pido, 
Pues folo efto es fingido en fer fingido. 

Circe. 
I Como, di, tan ofado 
Refpondes ? 

VliJes, 
Como elloy defefperado. 

Circe, 
I Como tan atrevido 
Te defvaneces .... 

Vlifes, 
Como elloy perdldo. 

Circe. 
A hablarme defta fuerte ? 

Vlijes, 
Como finjo quererte. 

Circe. 
I Luego aquello es fingido todavia ? 

VliJes. 
No, fenora. 

Circe {apart e'). 
\ O bien haya la porf la ! — 
Ulifes, aunque fuera 
Julio, que de efcarmiento te lirviera 
Tu ofadis, conviene 
Difimular, porque la gente viene. 
Que hafla aqui me ha feguido ; 
En fu fuerza fe quede lo fingido. 



Since we are here alone. 
Vlyjfes. 

O Lady ! then 
If I alike thy challifement mull rue. 
Whether my pafllonate fpeech be feign'd 

or true ; 
Then let thetruebepunifh'dordifdain'd. 
Since it is only feign'd in being feign'd. 

Circe. 
How haft thou, fay, fuch courage as to 

dare 
So bold a reply ? 

Vlyjfes. 

Becaufe I muft defpair. 
Circe. 
Why thus prefuming to the uttermoft, 
Ventureft thou now again .... 
Vlyjfes. 

Becaufe I am loft. 
Circe. 
To fpeak though I reprove thee ? 

VbJfes. 
Becaufe I feign I love thee. 

Circe. 
Is this then alfo feign'd as was thy fuit? 

Vlyjes. 
Senora, no. 

Circe {ajide). 
Oh ! bleft be the difpute !— 
Ulyfles, though it were 
But juft, that thou Ihouldft pay by thy 

defpair 
For thy prefumption ; ftill it needs that 

we 
DilTemble, fince my people feeking me 
Have hither come; thus there is no 

refource. 
And the command to feign muft ftill 
remain in force. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT 



93 



Salen todos, excepto Clarin. 
Arjidas {apart e). 
Aunque en tantos defvelos 
Mis agravios fe valgan de mis zelos. 
No darme intentare por intendido. 
I Mas como difimula un ofendido ? 
Volverme es ya moilrar mi fentimiento ; 
Defpejo quiero hacer de mi tormento. — 
Siguiendote, fenora, con tu gente 
Por la florida margen della fuente 
Vine, que elk pautada de colores. 
Las fenas de tu pie daba con flores. 



Circe, 
Hacia efta parte vine, 
Porque es donde la cena ahora previne. 

Lebrel. 
J Que bien, que bien me fuena 
Ella palabra, cena! 

Mas no veo entre ramas, ni entre flores 
Mefas, ni aparadores, 
Ni ocupada en domeftico trabajo 
A la familia de efcalera abajo 
Cruzar muy diligente. 

Circe, 
Todos OS id fentando brevemente, 
Porque en el campo todos 
Cenemos juntos, y de varios modos 
Se lirvan las viandas. — 
I Hola, la mefa ! 

Lebrel. 
Dime, a quien lo mandas ? 



Enter all, except Clarin. 
Arjidas {ajide). 
Although thefe watchings bring no eafe 
Unto my wrongful pangs but jealoufies, 
Still I would feel as if I did not feel them ; 
But how can he who knows his wrongs 

conceal them ? 
Now to turn back would all my wounds 

lay bare. 
And fo I'll maik them with this light- 

fome air. 
Lady, I've follow'd with thy people here 
Unto this flower-encinftured fountain 

clear, 
Whofe margin, colour'd by its cryftal 

fhowers. 
Gave us the imprefs of thy feet with 

flowers. 

Circe. 
I led unto this fliade. 
As here I order'd fupper to be laid. 

Lebrel. 
Supper ! delicious word ! 
Oh ! how my heart by the fweet found 

is ftirr'd ! 
But beneath the boughs, nor on the lea. 
Tables nor fideboards can I fee, 
Nor on needful houfe affairs 
The family down-ftairs 
Buftling about all bufy and all heated. 

Circe. 
Here I deflre that you would all be feated. 
Since in the open field fliall we 
Together fup, and with variety 
Of meats be ferved ; and fo as time is 

prefling. 
The table there ! — 

Lebrel. 
Now who are you addrefling ? 



94 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


A quien ya me ha entendido. 


One who can underftand me, do not fear. 


\Por debajo deltabladofale una me fa 


\^A table rijes from the ground, well 


muy compuefta y con luces , y fi'en- 


furnifhedy and with lights. Circe, 


tanfe Ulises, Circe, _)? Arsidas, _); 


Ulysses, and Arsidas feat them- 


los demas en eljuelo. 


felves at it, the others on the 




graf. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Linda mefa, pardiez ! nos ha venido. 


Jove ! v^^hat a crop of table fpringeth 


I No me diras, fi defto no te pefa. 


here! 


Cuanto habra que fembraron efto mefa ? 


Will you not tell me though, if you are 

able. 
How long it took the fo wing of this table? 




Circe. 


Circe. 


\ Hola, cantad ! cantad, y divertido 


Sing, ling ! and with the influence 


Uno y otro fentido 


Of mufic pleafe a double fenfe, 


Efte con las viandas y las voces. 


Let voice to voice replying 


Que fuenen en los zefiros veloces. 


Blend with the zephyrs o'er our banquet 


\Canta la Muftca. 


flying. \Muftc within. 


Mufica. 


Song. 


Olvidado de fu patria, 


Native land and home forgetting. 


En los palacios de Circe 


In the palace-halls of Circe 


Vive el mas valiente Griego, 


Lives the braveft Grecian hero ; 


Si, quien vive amando, vive. 


If he lives, who loving, liveth. 




A found of drums is heard from within. 


Toe an dentro cojas y fale Libia. 


and Libia enters. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


I Pero que es efto que efcucho ? 


But what noife is this I hear ? 


Ulifes. 


Ulyffes. 


I Pero que es efto que oigo ? 


But what found is this that ftirs me ? 


Flerida. 


Flerida. 


I Que es efto, cielos, que veo ? 


What, O heavens ! muft I behold ? 


Arjidas. 


Arfidas. 


I Que es efto, cielos, que noto ? 


Heavens ! to what ftrain muft I liften ? 


Circe. 


Circe. 


I Que belico eftruendo, que 


Say, what warlike clangour, what 


Marcial ruido, que alboroto 


Martial noife is this that filleth 


Deja la luz del fol ciega. 


Heaven with darknefs, blinds the fun. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT, 95 


Y el eco del aire fordo ? 


And the deafen'd echo dinneth ? 


Libia. 


Libia. 


Efe fiero Brutamonte, 


That ferocious Brutamonte, 


Efe gigante furiofo. 


That gigantic form of grimnefs. 


Que prefo, fenora, tienes. 


Whom, a captive, lady, thou 


Por guarda de tus hermofos 


Makeft guardian of the richnefs 


Jardines, porque no robe 


Of thy gardens fair, that none 


Nadie fus manzanas de oro, 


May their golden apples pilfer. 


Ofendido que a los Griegos 


Being oiFended that the Greeks, 


Blanda paz y fuave ocio 


Gentle peace, and reft, and mirth, here 


En tus palacios divieria. 


In thy palaces enjoy. 


Olvidados de si propios. 


Home-forgetting, and when drifted 


Habiendo Udo homicidas 


Here erewhile, that they had flain 


De Polifemo, que afombro 


Polyphemus, who was mingled 


Era monilruo de los hombres, 


Man and monfter — man 'mongfl 


y era hombre de los monftruos : 


monfters. 


Comunero de tu imperio. 


And a monfter 'mong man's kindred. 


Para vengarfe de todos. 


Now a rebel of thy realm. 


Convoco del Lilibeo 


In revenge his foes to kill here, 


Cuantos Ciclopes famofos. 


Hath convoked from Lilyboeum 


Efpurios hijos del fol. 


All the famous fpurious children 


Hoy viven de darle enojos; 


Of the fun, the giant Cyclops, 


Y dandoles pafo al Flegra 


Who in fpite of thee ftill live here. 


Brutamonte cautelofo. 


By the cunning Brutamonte 


Vienen contra ti en efcuadras 


They through Phlegra's pafs admitted. 


Mai ordenadas, de modo. 


Come againft thee in diforderM 


Que viendo vagar los rifcos. 


Squadrons, fo that up the cliffs here 


Difcurrir los promontorios. 


Climbing, o'er the promontories 


Parece que aquellos montes 


Striding, each huge bulk uplifted 


Defcienden unos de otros. 


'Gainft the iky, they look like moun- 


A cuyo eftrepito, a cuyas 


tains 


Voces y fufpiros roncos. 


O'er each other roH'd and rifted. 


El fol fe turba, y del cielo 


At whofe clamour, at whofe tumult. 


Caducan los ejes rotos. 


Hoarfe halloos, and hollow whifpers. 




The fun groweth dark, and downward 




Fall heaven's axes crack'd and fhiver'd. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


\ Ay de mi, en que gran peligro 


Woe is me ! in what great danger 


Eftoy ! en que grande ahogo ! 


Ami! oh ! how I'm afflided ! 



96 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR, 


Vlifes. 


Vlyjfes. 


Dad me mis armas, que yo 


Bring me here my arms, for I 


Saldre a reciberlos folo ; . . . . 


Shall go forth and meet them fingly ; . . . . 


Arjidas. 


Arftdas. 


No temas, que yo a tu lado 


Do not fear, for at thy fide 


Te defendere de todo ; . . . . 


I Ihall guard thee from all ills here 


Vlifes. 


Vlyfes. 


Porque para mi valor 


Since for valour fuch as mine 


Son tantos Ciclopes pocos. 


All the Cyclops' ftrength feems little. 


[Ulises va hacia afuera,y Ar- 


[Ulysses goes to the fide y and Ar- 


siDAS acude a Circe. 


siDAS approaches Circe. 


Arftdas. 


Arftdas. 


Porque no quiero mas vida. 


Since I only wifti for life. 


No, que morir a tus ojos. 


That thou may'ft my death here witnefs. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Como y cordelejo, dicen. 


Mirth is juft as good as meat, 


Que es en el mundo uno propio ; 


So they fay, but all within me 


Mas la cena que efperaba 


Yearneth for the miffing fupper 


Es cordelejo, y no como. 


As the fitter thing to fill me. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


\ Deteneos, deteneos ! 


Stay ! oh, ftay here ! Hay ! oh, flay here ! 


Que efte aparato ruidofo 


For this feeming found that llirs thee. 


Solo ha fido ma experiencia. 


Is but an experiment. 


Examen ha lido folo. 


Is but only a flight trial. 


Para ver, cual de los dos 


To difcover, of the two. 


En un peligro notorio 


Which of you in dangerous rifles here. 


Acudia a fus afedtos 


Would more generoufly, more nobly 


Mas noble y mas generofo ; 


Show the love that in him liveth ; 


Y all en campanas del aire 


Therefore on the fields of air 


Fantafticas hueftes formo. 


Have I phantom hofts depidled. 


Arfidas. 


Arftdas. 


Pues li ha fido ello experiencia. 


Then if this has been a trial. 


Yo foy el que me corono 


I am he, who, as the vi6lor. 


Vencedor, y el que merezco. 


Crown me, as the one who merits 


Circe, tu favor hermofo. 


Thy divinefl: favour, Circe, 


Ya pue Ulifes, acudiendo 


Since Ulyffes when he hurried 


A fus armas tan heroico. 


Hero-like to his arms fo fwiftly. 


Dejo de moftrarfe amante, 


Ceafed to Ihow himfelf thy lover. 


Pues en riefgo tan forzofo. 


Since in fuch a needful rifk, he 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 97 


No acudio luego a fu dama. 


Did not haften to his lady. 


Que en un amante es impropio. 


As a lover w^ould from inftind ! 


Ulifes. 


Vlyffes. 


Que acudi a las armas mias. 


That I hurried to my armour 


No niego ; pero tampoco 


I admit, but unadmitted 


Niego, que de amante ha fido 


Is it, that in this, my a6lion 


El afefto mas forzofo ; 


From a lover's impulfe difFer'd, 


Porque fi tomo mis armas. 


Since if I took arms, it w^as 


Para defenfa las tomo 


But in her defence I girt me 


Suya. 


With them. 


Arfidas. 


Arfidas. 


Nunca en un acafo 


Ne'er in fudden need 


Efta el difcurfo tan pronto, 


Can the reafon have fuch quicknefs 


Que efpere a caufa fegunda ; 


As to think of fecond caufes ; 


Lo primero es lo mas propio : 


The firft impulfe is the fitteft. 


A las armas fuille, luego 


To your arms you went, and therefore 


Ya perdifte. 


You've already loft. 


Vlifes. 


Vlyffes. 


De efe modo 


In this way. 


Tu tambien ; pues fi me acufas 


Have you alfo ; fince if me 


De poco amante, de poco 


Thou doft charge with fhowing little 


Fino, porque no acudi 


Love-zeal, for my not approaching 


A Circe, con efo propio 


Circe, I can now convift thee 


Te convenzo, pues que tu 


On thine own ground, fince thou haft 


Acudifle a fus enojos. 


Sought her, though it was forbidden 


Y ya te moftrafle amante. 


To avow thyfelf her lover. 


Arfidas. 


Arfidas. 


Si las nobles leyes noto 


If I underftand the firmeft 


De caballeria, acudir 


Law of knighthood, 'tis to fuccour 


A las damas es forzofo ; 


Ladies when fome wrong afflifts them. 


Y afi, como caballero. 


Therefore it was not as lover, 


No como amante, focorro 


But as cavalier, that Circe 


A Circe. 


I thus guarded. 


Vlifes. 


Vlyffes. 


En las de milicia 


In war's code too. 


Es ley, liempre que armas oigo. 


'Tis the law, that when the firft peal 


Acudir a tomar armas ; 


Calls to arms, we then (hould arm us ; 


Y all, con valor heroico. 


And thus, valorous, as befits me. 


Yo, foldado, caballero 


I, as foldier, knight, and lover. 



98 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 


Y amante, he acudido a todo. 


Wholly have myfelf acquitted. 


Arfidas. 


Arfidas. 


Ya fe, que por la elocuencia 


Yes I knov\^, thy eloquence 


Has de quedar liempre airofo ; 


Ever proveth thee keen-witted, 


Que no heredaras de Aquiles 


Elfe thou hadfl: not won the golden 


El grabado arnes de oro. 


Graven armour of Achilles, 


Si por el valor humbiera 


Which had been the Telamonian's, 


De darfele a Telamonio. 


If to valour it were given. 


Ulifes. 


Ulyfies. 


El valor le merecio ; 


'Twas by valour it was won. 


Y ahora veras ii es forzofo. 


This thou'lt own when thou doll wit- 


\_Saca la ejpada. 


nefs 


Pues de efa voz en ofenfa. 


Phlegra into dull down fhaken 


El Flegra volara en polvo. 


By my voice in anger lifted. 




\_Draws his fword. 


Arfidas. 


Arfidas. 


Primero ardera en cenizas 


By the fire-flames from mine eyes. 


Con el fuego de mis ojos. 


It will firlt be burnt to cinders. 


Porque a los dos de Trinacria 


As if two volcanoes more. 


Volcanes fe aiiadan otros. 


With Trinacrias two, were lit here. 


\Saca la efpada. 


l^Draws his fword. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Pues que es efto ? { en mi prefencia 


How is this ? and in my prefence 


Sacais el acero ? como ? 


Dar'll thou draw thy fword ? can this be ? 


Arfidas. 


Arfidas. 


Tu refpeto me perdone. 


May the refpedl that's due thee, pardon. 


Vlifes. 


Vlyjfes. 


Perdoneme tu decoro. 


May thy due deferts forgive me. 


Arfiidas. 


Arfidas. 


Que no hay refpeto con zelos. 


Since refped no jealous heart knows. 


Ulzfes. 


Vlyfi^es. _ 


Ni decoro con oprobios. 


No defert makes infult Ilinglefs. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


En mi vida me halle en cena. 


Never in my life, a fupper 


Que no parafe en lo propio. 


Have I waited for, like this here. 


unjes. 


Vlyffes. 


Aqui de Grecia ! 


Here for Greece ! 


Arfidas. 


Arfidas. 


J Y aqui 


And here, on my fide 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 



99 



DeTi 



Que aunque Tolo 



Me ves, mis vafallos Ton 
Efos brutos y efos troncos. — 
I Fieras de Trinacria humanas. 
Dad a vueftro Rey focorro ! 

Salen todas las fieras, y p'onenfe al 
lado de Arsidas, y los Griegos al 
lado de Ulises. 

Vlifes, 
Aunque a tus voces fe muevan 
Mejor, que al eco fonoro 
De Orfeo, troncos y fieras, 
Haciendo en ellas deftrozo, 
Apurare eftas montanas 
Bruto a bruto, y tronco a tronco 

\Rinen. 



Sale Clarin de mona. 

Clarin. 
Entre Griegos y animales 
Mai trabadas lides noto. 
No fe a cual debo acudir ; 
Porque obligado de todos. 
Soy por una parte Griego, 
y por otra parte mono. 

Circe. 
Pues no puedo reportaros 
Con mis voces, con mi afombro 
Podre. Los aires cubiertos 
De vapor caliginofo, 
Segunda noche parezca, 

Y a tanto fracafo abfortos, 
Del embrion de las nubes 
Sean los rayos abortos, 

Y el fol y la luna hoy, 
Viendole vivir tan poco, 
Pienfen, que el camino erraron 



For Trinacria ! For though fingle 
Here you fee me, I as vafTals 
Have thefe wild- beafts and thefe fir-trees. 
Human wild-herds of Trinacria, 
Succour ! fuccour ! to your king here ! 

Enter all the animals and place them- 
felves be fide Arsidas, and the Greeks 
befide Ulysses. 

Ulyjfes. 
Though unto thy accents move, 
Better than when Orpheus' fingers 
Touch'd the lyre, the woods and wild- 

beafts, 
Swift deftru6lion dealing 'midil them. 
Brute by brute, and tree by tree now 
Shall I purify thefe hills here. 

\They fight. 

Enter Clarin, as a monkey. 

Clarin. 
'Twixt the Greeks and animals, 
I the conflift watch bewilder'd : 
Which of them to join I know not. 
Since they're both of them my kinfmen. 
Being half monkey, and half Greek, 
On my outer fide and inner. 

Circe. 
Since I cannot hold you back 
^j my words, my dread bewitchments 
May be ftronger. Let the air 
Cover'd with a mill's black thicknefs 
Seem to fpread a fecond night. 
And the clouds, by terror flricken. 
From their wombs in fudden travail 
Give the abortive bolts exiftence ; 
And the fun and moon to-day 
Seeing how their brief life flitted. 
Let them think they've loft their way 



lOO 



EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR. 



De fus celeiliales tornos, 

que JO defde la tierra 
Apague fu luz de un foplo. 

[^Truenos y re/ampagos, obfcurecefe 
el teatrOy y rinen a obfcuras. 

Arfidas. 

1 Adonde, Ulifes, eftas ? 

Vlifes, 
Con mi acero te refpondo. 

\Pelean todos. 
Flora. 
Que pena ! 

Cafandra. 
Que ciego abifmo ! 
Arquelao. 
Que llanto ! 

Chloris. 

Que trifle enojo ! 
Antiftes. 
Que obfcura noche ! 
Clarin. 

Ha feiiores ! 
I Somos Griegos, 6 que fomos ? 

Lebrel. 
En tanto que todos andan 
Tropezando unos con otros .... 

Clarin. 
En tanto que cada uno 
Bufca de efcaparfe modo .... 

Lebrel. 
Yd a la mefa me remito. 

Clarin. 
y yo a la cena me acojo. 

\Suben fobre la mefa, y abrazanfe 
uno con otro. 
Lebrel. 
Pero que es efto ? un leon 
Dio conmigo. 



'Mid the fix'd celeftial circles, 
Or that I from off the earth 
With a breath their light eclipsed. 
[ Thunder and lightning ; the theatre 
becomes darkened^ and in the ob- 
fcurity the fighting is ftill continued. 
Arfidas. 
Say, UlylTes, fay, where art thou ? 

Ulyfijes. 
Let my fword an anfwer give thee. 

lAllfight. 
Florus. 
Oh ! what pain ! 

Cajfiandra. 

What blind abyfm ! 
Archelaus. 
Oh ! what yells ! 

Chloris. 
What mournful fhrill fcreams ! 
Antiftes. 
What a night ! 

Clarin. 

Oh ! are we Greeks, 
Or what are we Q\{ty good millers ? 

Lebrel. 
While they all o'er one another 
Tread and trample, hither, thither .... 

Clarin. 
While each one of them is thinking 
Of the fafeil way to flit hence .... 

Lebrel. 
I'll unbend me at the table. 

Clarin. 
I'll take refuge 'mong the difhes. 

[ They leap on the table y and fall 
into each other's arms. 
Lebrel. 
But what's this ? a mighty lion 
Seizes me ! 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. loi 


Clarin. 




Clarin. 


Mas que toco ? 




What's this that grips me ? 


Conmigo ha dado un gigante. 




I am feized here by a giant ! 


Circe. 




Circe. 


Hundafe elle fuelo todo. 




Let the whole ground fink down with 


Y ponga paz la diftancia. 




them. 
And letpeacefpring from their feverance. 


Clarin. 




Clarin. 


Todo fe hunde con nofotros. 




All things fink, as down we fink here. 


{Hiindefe la mefa, y los dos graciofos 


\frhe table finks into the earth, with 


fobre ella, y con la batalla 


y la 


the graciofos upon it, and with the 


tempejlad fe van todos. 




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JORNADA III. 

Marina, e immediatos a ella las 
Jardines de Circe. 

Salen Antistes, Arquelao, Polidoro, 
Floro, Timantes y Lebrel. 

Antiftes. 
'UN QUE ya todos fepais 
Lo que repetiros trata 
Mi voz, oidme ; que tal vez 
En pena, en defdicha tanta, 

Aun mas que noticias propias, 

Mueven agenas palabras ; 

Porque en efefto ninguno 

Es juez en fu mifma caufa. 

Siempre a la colera expueftos, 

Siempre expueftos a la faiia 

De los hados rigurofos, 

Defpues de fortunas varias, 

Arraftrados del deftino, 

Dimos en aquefta playa 

Del Flegra, exentos vafallos 

Del imperio de Trinacria, 

Aqui, contra los venenos 

De efa fiera, efa tirana, 

Antidoto nos dio Juno 

En las flores de oro y nacar. 

Que Iris trajo, defplegando 




ACT THE THIRD. 

The Sea-coast, and near it Circe's 
Gardens. 

Enter Antistes, Archelaus, Poly- 
DORUS, Florus, Timantes and Le- 
brel. 

Antiftes. 
HOUGH ye all perchance 

may know 
What my voice would fain 

impart ye. 
Hear me ftill : for many a time. 
In fuch pain, in fuch-like fadnefs 
More than to one's own thoughts even, 
To a ftranger's words we hearken ; 
Since no judge in his own caufe 
Can in truth be thought impartial. 
Still unto the wrath expofed. 
Still exposed to the anger 
Of the ever-rigorous fates. 
After fortune's various chances, 
Dragg'd along by deftiny. 
Came we to this Phlegra's ftrand here. 
Free-born and unfetter'd vaffals 
Of the kingdom of Trinacria. 
Here againft the venom'd draughts 
Of this tyrant-queen, this adder, 
Juno gave us antidotes 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT, 103 


Arcos de carmin y gualda. 


In the flowers of gold and nacre, 


Libres pues de fus prifiones 


Which fair Iris brought amid 


Nos vimos, y cuando trata 


Arcs of crocus and of carmine. 


Ulifes volver al mar. 


Free then from her threaten'd chains 


Que ya tuvimos por patria. 


We beheld us, and thereafter. 


El blando halago de Circe, 


When UlylTes would to fea — 


Que cuando ve que no ballan 


Which our country we regarded — 


Mor tales venenos, ufa 


Circe with her flatteries foft. 


De mas venenofas trazas. 


Seeing that her mortal draughts were 


Perfuadio a Ulifes, que aqui 


InfufEcient, had recourfe to 


Unos dias fe quedara 


Means whofe venom nought could 


A reparar de los vientos 


mafter ; 


j La repetida inconftancia. 


Him perfuading, that fome days 


El, fiado en fus cautelas. 


Here he would remain at anchor. 


Perfuadido a que quedaba 


To repair the oft-repeated 


A dar libertad a cuantos 


Ficklenefs of the winds' difafliers ; 


En eftas rudas montanas 


He, confiding in his caution. 


Barbara prifion padecen. 


Thinking that he could enfranchife 


Se quedo, donde a la rara 


All who in the barbarous prifons 


Beldad de Circe rendido 


Of thefe rude hills are held captive. 


Vive, Hn mas eiperanzas. 


Here remain'd, where he, o'ercome 


I Quien creera, que, no baftando 


By the charms, the unexampled 


Tantos encantos, ni tantas 


Lovelinefs of Circe, lives 


Ciencias, a veneer fus hados. 


Without hope or aim or plan here. 


Una hermofura baftara ? 


Who'll believe, that when had fail'd 


Mas todos lo creeran, todos. 


Every fcience, all enchantments 


Pues todos a ver alcanzan. 


To fubdue his fate, the beauty 


Que un amor y una hermofura 


Of one face was more than ample ? 


Son el veneno del alma. 


But all will believe it, all. 


Rendidos pues al amor. 


Since all hearts this truth have mafter'd 


Tanto los dos fe declaran. 


That wild love and woman's beauty 


Defde la noche que fueron 


Are to the foul as poifonous afps are. 


j Argument© las efpadas. 


Thus furrender'd up to love. 


Y pufieron paz las nubes 


Have the two their wild attachment 


Denfas, obfcuras y pardas. 


So avow'd, fince that night when 


Que Arfidas, zelofo y trifte, ' 


Swords cut through the word-entangled 


Lleno de zelofa rabia. 


Argument, and black clouds brought 


Se fue a fu corte, quiza 


Peace 'amid their mifts of darknefs. 


A difponer fu venganza. 


That Prince Arfldas, fad, jealous. 



I04 



EL MAYOR ENCJNrO AMOR. 



Ulifes pues, fin rezelo. 
Solo de fus guftos trata, 
Siempre en los brazos de Circe, 

Y afiftido de fus damas. 
En academias de amores, 
Saraos, feilines y danzas. 

Yo pues, viendonos perdidos. 
Hoy he penfado una traza. 
Con que a. fu olvido le acuerde 
De fu honor, y de fu fama : 

Y es, que pues el otro dia, 
Cuando oyo tocar al arnia, 
Se olvido de amor, y fue 
Tras la trompeta y la caja, 
A todas horas eftemos 
Defde el bajel, que en el agua 
Surto efta, tocando a guerra, 
Como que a Circe hacen falva ; 
Cuya voz noble recuerdo 
Sera de fu olvido, clara 
Sirena, que tras fu acento 

Los fentidos arrebata. 



Polidoro. 
Dices bien, y yo el primero 
Sere, que efta tarde haga 
La experiencia. 

Timantes. 

Pues ahora 
Es tiempo ; que Ulifes anda 
Eftos jardines, que hermofos 
Narcifos fon de efmeralda, 
Y enamorados de si, 
Se eftan mirando en las aguas. 

Arquelao. 
Yo fere el que defde el mar 



vengeance 



Driven by jealous rage to madnefs, 
To his Court retired, where he 
Doubtlefs fome dread 

planneth ; 
Whilft UlyfTes, uncontroll'd. 
All his time in pleafure paiTes, 
Ever in the arms of Circe, 
And affifted by her damfels. 
In academies of love 
Studieth balls and feafts and dances ; 
I then, feeing we are loft. 
Have to-day devifed a plan here, 
By whofe means to fame and honour 
We may wake him from his trances. 
This 'tis, fince, the other day, 
When he heard arms clang and jangle, 
He forgot his love, and went 
After the drum's and trumpet's rattle. 
We at every hour, from out 
Yonder bark, that lieth anchor'd 
On the ftiore, will found a war-charge. 
As if to Circe 'twere a falvo ; 
Whole voice will a noble memory 
Of the forgotten glorious paft be, 
A clear Syren, at whofe ftrain 
All his fenfes will be ravifti'd. 

Polydorus. 
You fpeak well, and I'll be firft 
To attempt the experiment after 
Evening clofes. 

Timantes. 

Then the prefent 
Is the time ; for through the gardens 
Walks UlyfTes, through the emerald- 
Hued Narciffi felf-enamour'd. 
Gazing on their own foft green 
In the water's clear expanfes. 

Archelaus. 
I will be the one to found 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 105 


Hare que toquen al arma ; 


From the Tea the martial clang then ; 


Antiftes aqui fe quede. 


Thou, Antilles, here remain. 


Para prevenir, que es falva. 


To explain, it is a falvo 


Que a Circe hace nueftra gente. 


Given to Circe by our people. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Si entre tantos votos halla 


If there's room, amid fo many 


Lugar un juro, 70 juro 


Vows, for a good oath, I fwear 


A la deidad foberana 


By great Jove, the fovereign father 


De Jupiter, que haceis mal 


Of the Gods, that you do wrong 


En prevenir efta traza. 


In attempting what you plan here. 


Floro. 


Florus. 


Por que? 


Why? 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Porque Circe fabe 


Becaufe of Circe knowing 


Mejor lo que aqui fe habla. 


Better about what we chat here 


Que nofotros, y podra 


Than we do ourfelves -, and fhe 


Tomar de todos venganza. 


Will take vengeance for it, mark me ! 


Efcarmentad en Clarin, 


On us all. Be warn'd by Clarin 


Que iiablo mal della, y airada 


Who fpoke ill of her; in anger 


Se vengo, pues no fabemos 


She revenged herfelf, and no one 


Que hay del, ni por donde anda. 


Knows his fate or what has happen'd. 


Floro. 


Florus. 


Todo efo es temor. 


All this is but fear. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel 


Es cierto. 


That's certain. 


Arquelao. 


Archelaus. 


Dejadle, no le creais nada. 


Leave him there, don't mind his tattle. 


Y vamos a nueftro intento. 


And let's go and try our projeft. 


Todos. 


All. 


Vamos. 


Let us go. [Exeunt all but Lebrel. 


\VanJe todos, j quedafe Lebrel. 




Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Vuefarcedes vayan. 


My worlhipful mailers. 


Que yo me quedo a tratar 


You may go, but I'll remain 


Cofas de mas importancia. 


For a more important matter. 


De todos los animales, 


Of the many animals 


Que por ellos campos andan. 


That acrofs thefe wild plains wander. 


Quifiera coger alguno. 


I am anxious to catch one. 


Que a Grecia defpues llevara. 


Which I may to Greece hereafter 



io6 EL MATOR ENCANTO AMOR. 


Cuando quifieren los diofes 


Bring back with me, when the Fates 


Efcaparnos de Trinacria ; 


Let us fly free from Trinacria. 


Porque fuera para alia 


One of them would be at home 


Importantifima alhaja 


Quite a treafure, a full harveit 


Uno dellos, pues a verle 


Of fine profit, for all Greece 


Solamente fe juntara 


Would flock round to fee his gambols. 


Toda Grecia, y yo tuviera 


And I'll make of him clear gain 


Con el fegura ganancia. 


By exhibiting his antics ; 


Cierta mona aqueftos dias 


For fome days a certain monkey 


Siempre cocandome anda 


Have I feen that grins and chatters 


Con geftos y con viafages. 


With odd geflures and grimaces ; 


Y a efta quifiera pefcarla. 


'Tis for him I wifli to angle ; 


Para cuyo efedo traigo 


For which purpofe I have brought 


Efte cordel con que ataria 


This good cord wherewith to catch him 


Luego que la vea, porque 


When again I fee him, flnce 


Es juguetona, y es manfa. 


He's fo playful and fo adlive. 


Sale Clarin de mona. 


Enter Clarin as a monkey. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Hacia aqui, fi no me engaiio. 


'Twas but now, unlefs I err. 


Mis companeros eftaban. 


My companions here were gathered — 


Aunque, defpues que foy mona. 


Though fince I a monkey grew. 


Por donde quiera que vaya. 


Wherefoe'er I roam or ramble 


Hailare mis compaiieros. 


I can meet with my companions. 


Por feiias les dire, que hagan. 


By thefe geflures I would afk them 


Que me de libertad Circe, 


Circe to implore to free me. 


Pues ya lo enmonado bafta. 


Since with monkeyhood I'm fated. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Vela aqui; yo quiero echarle 


There he is ! around his throat 


Eile lazo a la garganta. 


I this noofe would like to faften. 


Ahora es tiempo. i Que me eftorba. 


Now's the time. But whence this fear ? 


Que me turba, 6 que me efpanta. 


What difturbs me ? What unmans me ? 


Si una mona diz que es facii 


Since fo eafy, as 'tis faid. 


De coger ?* Diganlo tantas 


Is it to fuck a monkey ? * Matters, 


Como cogidas me efcuchan. 


Ye who hear me, own how eafy : — 


* Coger una mona^ literally, to catch a monkey, 


* " Tafuck the monkey^ to drink at an ale- 


means to be intoxicated. I have paraphrafed it 


houfe at the expenfe of another." — Halli- 


by a fomewhat fimilar expreffion in the tranf- 
lation. 


well's DiEiionary. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT 107 


No efcapareis de mis garras. 


But you won't efcape my hands here. 


[Echaie un cor del al cuello. 


[Flings the cord round Clarin's neck. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Ay, que me ahogas, Lebrel ! 


Ah ! you're choking me, Lebrel ! 


No en el pefcuezo me hagas 


I'm your prifoner, but don't catch me 


La prefa. 


By the throat thus. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Por mas que coques, 


Mouth away. 


No te iras. 


Come you will though. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


\ No es cofa extrana. 


What a marvel i 


Que hable para mi, y difcurra 


That I fpeak to myfelf, make ufe of 


Con fentidos, vida 7 alma. 


All my fenfes, foul and heart have. 


Y con los otros no pueda 


Yet I can't articulate words. 


Articular las palabras ? 


To make others underftand me. 


Lebrel, mira que foy yo. 


Ah! Lebrel, think who I am. 


Lebrel, 


Lebrel. 


J Como brinca, y como faka ! 


How he bounces ! how he dances ! 


No puedo llevar a Grecia 


Nothing could I bring to Greece 


Cofa de mas importancia. 


More important or attraftive. 


Senora mona, defde hoy 


From this day. Sir Monkey, we 


Hemos de fer camaradas, 


Will be comrades in my travels. 


No hay lino tener paciencia, 


Nothing for't but patience, fo 


Y venir conmigo. 


Come along. 


Clari7i. 


Clarin. 


Bafta, 


'Tis plain and patent 


Que no me entiende. 


He don't underftand me. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


\ Que gellos 


How 


Hace, y con que linda gracia ! 


Gracefully he grins and chatters ! 


Salen Astrea j Libia. 


Enter Astrea and Libia. 


Libia. 


Libia. 


En todo el dia no hay verte, 


Why, Lebrel, I haven't feen you 


Lebrel ; dime, donde andas ? 


All the day : what were you after ? 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


He andado a caza de monas. 


I've been after apes and monkeys. 


Y a fe que no es mala caza. 


And with good fuccefs : this charmer 


Y efta he cogido. | 


I have captured. 



io8 EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR. 


Libia. 


Libia. 


j Ay, que linda 


What a pretty 


Monica ! 


Little monkey ! 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Cocala, Marta. 


Jock, grin at her. 


Libia. 


Libia. 


I Que pienfas hacer con ella ? 


What, though, do you purpofe with him ? 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Pienfo, Libia mia, llevarla 


Him, my Libia, I fhall carry 


A Grecia, enfeiiarla alia 


Back to Greece, and have him taught 


A tocar una guitarra. 


To touch lightly the guitar there. 


A andar por una maroma. 


On the tight-rope there to tumble. 


Y hacer vueltas en las tablas. 


And to dance in booths and taverns. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Yo por maroma ? yo vueltas ? 


I a dancer ! I a tumbler! 


Efto folo me faltaba. 


Only this alone was wanted. 


AJirea. 


AJirea. 


Dime, Lebrel, ly Clarin 


Tell me, though, Lebrel, of Clarin, 


Donde efta ? 


Where's he gone ? 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Aqui. 


He's here. 


AJirea. 


AJirea. 


Alia te aparta ! 


Keep back there ! 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Defde el dia que quedo 


Since the day I left him laden 


Cargado de joyas tantas .... 


With his jewels, gems, and jafpers . . . 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


\ Tal tengas tu la falud ! 


May you have the like good fortune ! 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


No le vi, ni fe que fe haya 


I haven't feen him, nor his abfence 


Hecho. 


Can I account for. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Yo si. 


I can. 


AJirea. 


AJirea. 


Su codicia 


Doubtlefs 


Le ha efcondido. 


Avarice hides him. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Hay mayor rabia ! 


Oh ! 'tis madnefs ! 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 109 


Libia. 


Libia. 


Circe hacia efta parte viene. 


Circe comes in this direftion. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Pues por li acafo fe enfada 


Left perchance Ihe fhould be angry 


De que cogiefe efta mona. 


With me for my monkey prize here. 


Me voy. Ven conmigo, Marta. 


Off I go. Come with me, Maffa. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Si me ahoga, que he de hacer ? 


What's to be done though, if he choke 


Lebrel. 


me i 

Lebrel. 


j como he de regal ark ! \VanJe. 


Faith, to hold him I'll be hard fet. 




\_Exeunt all. 


Salen Ulises, Circe y todas las Damas. 


Enter Ulysses, Circe and her Ladies. 


Circe. 


Circe, 


En efta florida margen. 


On this flowery margin here. 


Defde cuya verde eftancia 


From whofe green flopes foftly flanted. 


Se juzgan de tierra 7 mar 


The two lovely level plains 


Las dos viftofas campaiias. 


Of the land and fea expand them. 


Tan contrariamente hermofas. 


So contrafted in their beauty, 


Y hermofamente contrarias. 


In their beauty fo contrafted. 


Que neutral la vifta duda. 


That the neutral vifion doubts 


Cual es la yerba, 6 el agua. 


Which is grafs and which is water. 


Porque aqui en golfos de flores. 


Since in bright bays here of flowers. 


Y alii en felvas de efmeraldas. 


In green groves of emerald glafs there. 


Unas mifmas ondas hacen 


The fame waves together make 


Las efpumas y las matas. 


Now the foam-wreaths, now the 


A los fufpiros del noto. 


branches. 


Y a los alientos del aura. 


When the funny fouth wind figheth. 


Puedes defcanfar, Ulifes, 


When the fofter zephyr panteth. 


Las fatigas de la caza 


From the labours of the chafe 


En mis brazos. 


Thou, Ulyfl'es, in mine arms here 




Canft refrefti thee. 


Vlifes. 


Vlyjfes. 


Dices bien; 


Thou fpeak'ft well ; 


Pues folo en ellos defcanfa 


Since in them alone comes any 


El alma, porque ellos folos 


Reft unto my foul, for they 


El centre han fido del alma. 


Are its centre, its fole magnet. 



I lO 



EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 



Circe. 
Con todas eflas finezas, 
Temo, Ulifes, que me engafias. 

Vlifes. 
Por que ? 

Circe. 
Por penfar, que dura 
Aquella ficcion pafada. 

vn/es. 

Nunca lo fue para mi. 

Circe, 
Quien lo afegura ? 

Vlifes. 

Mis anlias. 
Circe. 
Quien lo dice ? 

Vlifes. 

Mis defeos. 
Circe. 
Es engaiio. 

Vlifes. 

Es verdad clara. 
Circe. 
\ Quien, Ulifes, la fupiera ! 
Vlifes. 
Efcucha, Circe, y Tabraila : 

Vengativa deidad, deidad ingrata. 
Que a la de Juno y Jupiter fe atreve, 
Huefped de efa republica de nieve, 
Vecino de efe pielago de plata, 

Tantos anos la patria me dilata, 
Y tantos contra mi peligros mueve. 
Que, porque fuefe mi vivir mas breve, 
A tus umbrales derrotarme trata. 

A ellos llegue, feguro y defendido 
De efcandalo, de horror, de afombro 

tan to, 
Como has en tierra y mar introducido. 
Tus encantos venci, mas no tu Uanto; 



Circe. 
Ah ! I fear thou Hill deceiv'ft me, 
Howfoe'er thy tongue doth flatter. 

Vlyffes, 
Why? 

Circe. 
Becaufe I think that Hill 
That falfe feint of loving lafteth. 

Vljffes. 
Falfe it never was with me. 

Circe. 
Who doth make that fure ? 
Vlyjfes. 

My anguilli. 
Circe. 
Who doth fay it ? 

Vlyffes. 

My heart's hope. 
Circe, 
'Tis deceit. 

Vlyffes. 
'Tis truth's own language, 
Circe. 
Who, Ulyffes, that can know ? 

Vlyjes. 
Hear me, Circe, and I'll anfwer : — 
A vengeful goddefs, a dread deity. 
One who with Jove and Juno dares 

compete, — 
An ill-fared gueil where fnow-white 

breakers meet, 
A lonely loiterer on the lilver fea, — 

Long from my country had belated me. 
And with new tempefts every day 

would beat 
My ftruggling fhip, to make my fate 

complete 
Led me at length unto thy fliores and 
thee. 



LOVE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. in 


Pudo el amor lo que ellos no han 


Hither I came, my fearlefs path pur- 


podido : 


suing. 


Luego el amor es el mayor encanto. 


All fears of thee, all horrors raifed 




above. 




Thy vain enchantments in a trice fub- 




duing. 




But not thy tears, v^hich ftill could 




vidor prove. 




Since love could do what they had 




fail'd in doing 




Then is the greateft of enchantments. 




love. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Con toda aquefa fineza, 


Even with all thy flatteries 


La que me debes no pagas. 


Thou thy debt to me canft cancel. 


Porque fue mayor la mia. 


Since ftill greater far were mine. 


Ulifes. 


Vl:^Jfes. 


De que fuerte ? 


In what way ? 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Oye, y fabrafla : 


Attend, I'll anfwer : — 


Vengativa y cruel, porque te afombres. 


Vengeful and cruel (fear-infpiring then) 


A pefar de deidades lifonjeras. 


Spite of all goddeffes of gentler mien. 


Reina defla republica de iieras. 


Of this wild kingdom of wild beafts 


Seiiora delle pielago de hombres, 


the queen. 


Vivi ; y porque mas barbara me nombres. 


The miilrefs of this wildernefs of men. 


Ninguno aborto el mar a ellas riberas. 


Long lived I here in my enchanted den. 


Que a mi langrienta magica no vieras 


No one approach'd thefe fhores of 


Trocar las formas, y mudar los 


fmiling green 


nombres. 


But by my bloody magic foon was feen 


Llegafte tu, y queriendo tu homicida 


Transform 'd and prifon'd in a beftial 


Ser, burlalle mis ciencias,con efpanto. 


pen : 


Queriendote veneer, quede vencida. 


At length you came, by power ftill 


Si mi encanto, al mirar afombro tanto. 


mightier ihielded. 


Al encanto de amor rindio mi vida. 


You laugh'd my fpells to fcorn, and 


Luego el amor es el mayor encanto. 


when I ftrove 


\_Duermefe Ulises. 


To conquer you, the fubtler power you 




wielded 




Enmefh'd me in the net-work that I 




wove. 



112 EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR. 




Since then my life to love's enchantments 




yielded. 




Then is the greateft of enchantments, 




love. [Ulysses /^^/j. 


Sale Libia. 


Enter Libia. 


Libia. 


Libia. 


La mufica, que has mandado 


Lady, as you have delired. 


Prevenir, efta, fenora. 


The muficians now are Haying 


Efperando. 


In the ante-room. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Por ahora 


Their playing 


No canteis.; que defvelado 


Mufl: be now poftponed, lince tired. 


Se da Ulifes por vencido 


Hath Ulyffes yielded up 


A la deidad de Morfeo, 


All his fenfes to the keeping 


A cuyo letal trofeo 


Of the god of fleep, and lleeping 


Las potencias ha rendido. 


Taftes the god's lethean cup — 


Haciendo de todas dueno 


That pale power, death's fhadowy 


Ella macilenta fombra, 


brother. 


Que a un tiempo halaga 7 afombra. 


Who a curfe or blefBng feems. 


Pues es defcanfo, y es fueno. 


As he gives fweet reft or dreams 


Infundid, aves y ilores. 


Which the confcience fain would 


Para aliviar fus congojas. 


fmother ;— 


Silencio en templadas hojas. 


Give, ye birds and flowers and groves. 


Sufpended vueftros amores. 


Give, for that light breath he heaves. 


No hagan ruido los crillales 


Silence 'mid your trembling leaves. 


De los arroyos, callando 


Brief fufpenfion to your loves; 


Corran las fuentes, mollrando 


Streamlets, down in foft attrition 


Obedientes y leaks 


Let your cryftals glide, ye flowing 


El amor, que en mi fe encierra ; 


Fountains, now be filent, fliowing 


Y en retorico filencio 


Your obedience and fubmiffion 


Digan, cuanto reverencio 


To the love my breaft that charms. 


Su defcanfo. 


And in filent rhetoric fay 




How you reverence to-day 




His repofe. 


Voces {dentro). 


Voices within. 


Guerra, guerra ! 


To arms ! to arms ! — 


\T^ocan dentro cajas hdcia un lado. 


{Drums and trumpets are heard 




from the fame Jide. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT 113 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Que es efto ? i cuando pretendo 
Silencio, hay quien le interrompa ? 


What is this, that thus dertroys 
Silence, that fo late I claim'd ? 


[Defpierta Ulises. 
Ulifes. 
Guerra publica ella trompa, 
Guerra publica efte eftruendo. 


[Ulysses awakes. 
Ulyfes. 
War, that trumpet hath proclaim'd. 
War, that clang of martial noife. 


^' Pues como, ay diofes ! afi 


But, ye Gods ! from what bafe caufe 


Es hoy perezofo el fueno, 
De nobles fentidos dueno ? 


Is, to-day, dull fleep abhorr'd. 
Of my nobler fenfes lord ? 


No foy, lin dud a, el que fui, 
Pues a delicias fuaves 


Ah ! I am not what I was ; 
Since by its foft fway fubdued. 


Entregado, ay de mi ? efloy. 


Woe is me ! when bugles vie. 


Y tras los ecos no voy 
Mas belicofos y graves.— 
Perdona, Circe, que afi. 


Ah ! my heart doth not reply. 
Bold, refponfive, as it ihould. 
Pardon me, O Circe, fee! 


Habiendo guerra y furor. 
No me ha de tener tu amor. 


War and woe are in my ear. 
And love mull not keep me here. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Detente, efcucha ! ay de mS ! 


Liflen, flay ! ah ! woe is me. 


I Quien efe clarin toco ? 


Who produced this wild uproar? 


Sale Antistes. 


Enter Antistes. 


Jntijfes. 
Quien, penfando que ieria 
Lifonja, la falva hacia, 


Antijies. 
We with trumpets long fo mute. 
From our fliip did th«e falute. 


Cuando defde el mar te vio. 


When we faw thee on the fhore. 


Ulifes. 
Aqui no hay ya que efperar ; 
La guerra me ha defpertado, 
Porque en el alma ha tocado 


Vlyjfes. 
Here delay difgraceful feems. 
Battle leads my Heps afar ; 
Since the firen fong of war 


La firena militar. 


Wakes my foul from all its dreams. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Para templar el furor, 
Cantad de amor, cantad pues. 


Sing of love, fing rapturoufly. 
Sing, and thus his rage remove. 


[La Mujica al otro lado. 
Miifica. 
I Donde vas, Ulifes, li es 
El mayor encanto amor ? 


\Mufic and fong from the other fide. 
Song. 
Stay, Ulyffes, Hay, if love 
Greatefl of enchantments be. 



114 EL MJTOR ENCJNTO AMOR 


Vlijes. 


VlyJJes. 


I Que blandas voces fuaves. 


Ah ! vsrhat fweet feduftive words ! 


Repetidas en los vientos. 


Ah ! w^hat founds are thofe I hear ? 


Son con fonoros acentos 


Sounds whofe foften'd echoes clear 


Duke envidia de las aves ? 


Wake the envy of the birds. 


J Que bien el amor me fuena ! 


Ah ! how fweet to me love's ftrain. 


I Como tu amor me ha podido. 


Sweet and with a ftrange power too, 


Circe hermofa, haber vencido 


Lovely Circe, to fubdue 


Aquella pafada pena ? 


All that paft perturbed pain : — 


Ya me vuelvo a tu favor. 


'Neath thy fway once more I move. 


Griegos {dentro). 


The Greeks {within). 


Guerra, guerra ! 


To arms ! to arms ! 


Vlifes. 


VlyJJes. 


Mas I que efpero ? 


But why delay ? 


Las armas me llaman, quiero 


Battle calls, I muft away 


Seguirlas. 


To the combat. 


Mujlca {dentro). 


Song {within). 


Amor, amor ! 


Love, fweet love ! 


Vlijes. 


VlyJJes. 


j Que blanda, que dulcemente 


Ah ! how fweetly on the wind 


Suena efta voz repetida! 


Sounds again that warbled figh ! 


Antijles {aparte). 


Antijies {ajtde). 


Aunque me cuefte la vida. 


Though I lofe my life thereby 


Tengo de hablar claramente. — 


Plainly I muft fpeak my mind : — 


Ulifes, invifto Griego, 


O Ulyftes, viftor Greek ! 


I Como, cuando afi te llama 


When the trumpet of thy fame 


La trompeta de la fama. 


Calls thee to a loftier aim. 


En deliciofo fofiego 


Canft thou, lull'd in luxury, feek 


Sordo yaces ? i Cuanto yerra. 


Not to hear it? Of love's charms 


No fabes, el que rendido 


Know'ft thou not the dire effedl \ 


A fu amor, labra fu olvido ? 


How they work fad felf-negleft ? 


Oye efta voz ! 


Lift this voice. 


Griegos {dentro). 


The Greeks {within). 


Guerra, guerra ! 


To arms ! to arms ! 


^ Vlijes. 


Vlyjfes. 


Tienes, Antiftes, razon ; 


Yes, Antiftes, thou art right. 


Torpes mis fentidos tuve. 


Torpor held my fpell-bound mind. 


Ciego eftuve, fordo eftuve ; 


I was deaf, and I was blind. 


Mas ya que eftas voces fon 


But my fenfes and my fight 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 



Recuerdos de mi ofadia. 
Las priliones rompere. 

Circe. 
I Tan ingrata prifion fue, 
Ulifes, la prifion mia ? 
I Como, cuando entre mis brazos 
Envidia a las flores das, 
Tras otro afe<5lo te vas ? 
I Tan faciles fon mis lazos 
De romper ? i Tanto rigor 
Premio es de tantos favores ? 
Efcucha en hojas y en flores 
Ella voz. 

Mujica {dentro). 
Amor, amor ! 
Antifies. 
No calle el marcial furor. 

Circe. 
Amor digan mar y tierra. 
Mujica [dentro). 
Amor, amor ! 

Griegos {dentro). 

Guerra, guerra ! 
Guerra, guerra ! 

Mujica {dentro). 

Amor, amor ! 
Ulijes. 
Aqui guerra, amor aqui 
Oigo, y cuando afi me veo, 
Conmigo mifmo peleo ; 
Deiiendame yo de mi. 
Antijles. 
Efto es honor. 

Ulijes. 

Dices bien, 
Todo el honor lo atropella. 

Circe. 
Efto es gloria. 



By thefe voices are reftored ; 
I fhall break my chains and flee. 

Circe. 
To be captive unto me. 
Was it thraldom fo abhorr'd ? 
How, when in my arms thou'ft given 
Envy to the lovelieft flowers, 
Canft thou figh for ftormier hours ? 
Can my fweet bonds then be riven 
Thus fo lightly ? Doft thou prove 
Grateful thus for bygone bliffes ? 
Hear this voice, that as it kifl'es 
Flowers and leaves, fings — 
Song {within). 

Love, fweet love ! 
Antijles. 
Ceafe not, founds that warriors move ! 

Circe. 
Land and fea flng love's foft charms. 

Song {within). 
Love, fweet love ! 

The Greeks {within). 

To arms ! to arms ! 
To arms ! to arms ! 

Song {within). 

Love, fweet Jove! 
VlyJJh. 
Love and war falute my ear. 
Either would my heart delight with ; 
'Tis myfelf that I muft fight with, 
'Tis myfelf that I muft fear. 

Antijles. 
Honour's here. 

Vlyjfes. 
Thou fpeakeft true. 
All things lie at honour's feet. 

Circe. 
Here is rapture. 



ii6 EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR. 


Ulifes. 


Uljfjh. 


i Ay Circe bella, 


Circe fweet. 


Que bien dices tu tambien ! 


Ah ! how well thou fpeakeft, too. 


Circe, 


Circe. 


El gufto es dulce pafion. 


Sweet is paffion's rapturous bhfs. 


Ulifes. 


Ulyffes. 


Razon tienes. 


Thou art right. 


Antifies. 


Antifies. 


La vidoria 


But far more glorious 


Es mas aplaufo, mas gloria. 


Is the warrior's wreath vidtorious. 


Ulifes. 


Ul:^ffes. 


Tu tambien tienes razon. 


Thou art alfo right in this. 


Antifies. 


Antijies. 


Guerra y amor en rigor 


War and love both call thee ; prove 


Te llaman, miedos deftierra. 


Now thy wifdom,' — hence, alarms ! 


Mufica {dentro). 


Song {within). 


Amor, amor ! 


Love, fweet love ! 


Griegos {dentro). 


The Greeks {within). 


Guerra, guerra ! 


To arms ! to arms ! 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Quien ha vencido ? 


Which has conquer'd ? 


Ulifes. 


Ulyffes. 


El amor ; 


It is love ; 


Que I como pudiera fer. 


Since, what other power could have 


Que otro afedo me venciera. 


Any chance of vidlory. 


Donde tu hermofura viera ? 


Thou in beauty Handing by ? 


Efclavo tuyo he de fer. 


From this hour I am thy Have; 


No hay mas fama para mi 


To adore thee be my fame. 


Que adorarte, no hay mas gloria 


All my glory, my reward. 


Que vivir en tu memoria. 


But to live in thy regard. 


Dichofo mil veces fui 


O thrice-happy day ! that came 


El dia, que tu favor 


All my doubtings to remove. 


Merecio mi voluntad. 


Since it came thy love to bring. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Venid todas, y cantad : 


Come, my maidens, come and fing. 


" El mayor encanto amor." — 


" The greateft of enchantments. 


Entra tu ; y vofotros, Griegos, 


love;"— 


Mas pelares no me deis, 


Enter thou ; and, O ye Greeks, 


Y agradeced que no os veis. 


Interrupt our blifs no more. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 117 


Entre volcanes j fuegos. 


And be thankful that the roar 


De mi colera abrafados. 


Of no red volcano breaks 




Round you raging, through mine ire. 


Antijfes. 


Antiftes. 


J Ay de nofotros ! que all 


Ah ! unhappy we ! lince here, 


Ya moriremos aqui 


Exiled from our country dear. 


Cautivos y defterrados ; 


Captives we muft all expire. 


Sepulcro fera efta tierra 


Land foredoom'd of fatal charms. 


De tanto griego valor. \_Fafe. 


Grecian valour's grave to prove ! 




{Exit. 


Mufica, 


Song. 


j EI mayor encanto amor ! 


The greateft of enchantments, love ! 


\_Fanfe todos cantando. 


\Exeunt all^Jinging. 


En otra parte toe an arm as, y dke 


In a third direction a martial charge 


Arsidas. 


is founded from within. 


Arjtdas {dentro). 


Arfidas [within). 


Arma, arma ! guerra, guerra ! 


War ! war ! to arms ! to arms ! 


Vuelve Circe y todas las Damas. 


Circe, with her train, returns. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


I Que es efto, habiendo mandado 


How is this ? when I commanded 


Yo, que temerofos callen 


That the trembling echoes, humbled. 


Los repetidos acentos 


Should no more repeat the rude notes 


De baquetas y metales. 


Of the drum-fticks and the trumpets ; 


Otra vez ofais, villanos. 


Dare ye, once again, vile caitiiFs, 


Otra vez ofais, cobardes. 


Cowards, dare ye thus infult me. 


Que oprimido el bronce gima. 


Making the forced bronze-tubes groan. 


Que herido fe queje el parche ? 


And the wounded parchment mutter ? 


Sale Flerida. 


Enter Flerida. 


Fie rid a. 


Flerida. 


No efte repetido acento. 


No, this rude found now repeated. 


Que con idiomas marciales. 


Which, in martial idiom utter'd, 


Eftremeciendo los montes. 


Makes the mighty mountains quiver. 


Titubear los ejes hace. 


And their deepeft caverns rumble. 


Cautela ha fido de Griegos ; 


Was not by the Greeks occafion'd ; 


Mas defdichas, mas pefares. 


Greater griefs, afflidions newer. 


Mas penas, mas confuliones. 


Added forrows, worfe confufions. 



ii8 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 


Mas tormentos y mas males 


Countlefs ills and v^roes unnumber'd. 


Son los que quieren los cielos. 


Are, fo heaven has wifh'd, the caufes 


Que eflos aparatos caufen. 


Of the founds at v^hich vi^e fhudder. 


Arfidas, que taritos dias 


Arfidas, who w^as, thou knoweft, 


Fue de tu hermofura amante. 


Long the lover of thy beauty. 


A tus defdenes quejofo. 


By thy cold difdainings wounded. 


Ofendido a tus defaires. 


Anger'd by thy proud repulfes. 


Defde que ya enamorada 


From the day that thou declared thee 


De UliTes te declarafte. 


Openly UlyiTes' lover, 


Cuando de aquella cueflion 


When the queftion's doubtful iffue 


Pufieron los rayos paces. 


Clofed in lightning and in thunder. 


A fu corte fe fue, donde. 


To his court went, where compelhng 


Queriendo el amor que pafen 


His late love to change with fudden 


De extremo a extremo fus penas. 


Impulfe from one point to another 


Que ello en los hombres es facil. 


(Men find eafy fuch abruptnefs). 


Amenazando eftos montes 


Now returns, thefe mountains threaten- 


Viene, infeftando efos mares ; 


ing. 


Y con razon, pues las ondas. 


Comes oppreffing thefe white furfs here; 


Gimiendo del pefo grave. 


And with reafon, lince the billows 


Con ambicion de penafcos 


Groaning 'neath fo great a burthen. 


Blafonan, cuando arrogantes 


Thinking that with rocks they wreflle, 


Ven por la campana azul 


Proudly rufh exulting up them. 


De fus falobres criftales 


They behold upon the cryftal 


Vagar un Volcan defhecho. 


Salt hills of their azure furface 


Mover un Flegra portatil. 


Float along a loofed volcano. 


Correr un Etna movible. 


Flit a Phlegra down the currents. 


E ir una Trinacria errante. 


Haften by a mobile ^tna. 


Lifidas, de mi ofendido. 


A Trinacria through the furges. 


Creyendo que yo mudable 


Lyfidas, with me oiFended, 


Amaba a Ulifes, (la caufa 


Thinking that my heart had fuffer'd 


Con que yo lo fingi fabes) 


Love-change for Ulyfles (why 


Le acompana, porque afi. 


So I feign'd, thou knoweft, that urged me) 


Pretende de aqui facarme ; 


Comes along with him, thus hoping 


Que agravios de amor y zelos 


That from this he may abdudl me ; 


No guardan refpeto a nadie. 


Since nor love nor jealoufy 


Yo lo fe, porque fentada 


Show refpeft to aught that's human: — 


Sobre efa punta, que hace 


This I know, becaufe when feated 


Corona al mar y a la tierra. 


On that point which crowns the furtheft 


Arbitro de ondas y valles, 


Headland height o'er earth and water, 



LOVE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT 119 


Vi, (como entre obfcuros lejos 


Waves and valle7S lying under. 


De unos pintados celages. 


Saw I, (as the far perfpedlives 


Suelen pintarnos las fombras. 


Of fome painter's glorious funfets 


Ya jardines, ya ciudades) 


Give us lhadow7 outlines, gleaming 


Una confufa noticia,* 


Gardens here, and there dark turrets) — 


Que era, al perfpicaz examen 


A remarkable confufion. 


De la vifta, neutral duda, 


Which upon m7 fight refulted 


Mezcla de nubes y naves. 


In a fplendid maze of mingled 


Cuandof al acercarfe al puerto 


Clouds and ihips of loveliell colour. 


La gruefa armada que traen. 


When approach'd the great armada 


A los fulcos de las proas 


To the port, I faw the furf there. 


Rizarfe vi, 7 encrefparfe 


In the furrows of the prows. 


Blanca efpuma, que al azul 


Twift itfelf, and crifp, and curdle 


Camelote de aguas hace 


Foam white fair, which on the azure 


Bella guarnicion de plata. 


Camlet of the fea made lovel7 


Que fin que al dibujo guarde 


Broider7 of netted filver. 


El orden, es mas hermofo. 


Which without defign refulted 


Por fer dibujo fm arte. 


In that perfeft grace, which nature 


Llegaron a nueftro puerto. 


Ever without art produces. 


Donde iin faenas baten 


Then our harbour having enter'd. 


Las blancas alas de lino. 


The7, uncorded, let forth flutter 


Negandofe al mar, 6 al aire 


Their white wind-raifed wings of linen. 


Efos peces, fi fon peces. 


Leaving fea and fk7 in utter 


efas aves, fi Ton aves. 


Doubt if the great keels were fiihes. 


Sin falva a tierra faltaron. 


Or the fails the wings of birds were. 


Y fueron en un inftante 


Giving no falute the7 leap'd forth 


Griegos caballos, prenados 


On the land ; the ihips grown fubtle 


De aparatos militares. 


Great Greek horfes, all with war-llores 


Pues abortaron fus vientres. 


Pregnant to the ver7 gunnel: 


Siendo del agua Volcanes, 


For from out their wombs in birth- 


Iras 7 ra70s, que luego 


throes. 


Fueron poblando la margen. 


(Sea-borne forges the7 of Vulcan,) 


Bien a los dos conoci. 


Angr7 bolts were born, which peopled 


Que armados a tierra falen. 


All the fhore round with their thunders. 


Y en mal pronunciadas voces, 


Well I knew, of thofe who leap'd forth 


Que embarazo lo diftante, 


Arm'd on land there, two among them. 


* Hartzenbufch's edition reads apariencia. — 
Tr. 


And in words caught indiftin6ll7. 
Which the dillance half obftruded. 


-j- Hartzenbufch reads /«f^o. — Tr. 


Heard I Arlidas, who faid : — 



I20 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 


Oi a Arfidas, que dijo : 


On this day at length is number 'd 


Hoy delta magica acaben 


This magician's laft enchantments ; 


Los encantos, y efte monte. 


And this mountain, this afurper. 


Que es tiranizado Atlante 


Which like Atlas lords Trinacria, 


De Trinacria, a mi valor 


Shall beneath my valour crumble. 


Se poftre. — Yo viendo el grande 


I perceiving the great danger 


Peligro, que te amenaza. 


That thus threatens to engulf thee. 


Volando vine a avilarte. 


Flew to tell thee. — So get ready 


Preven la defenfa pues. 


All the aid that thou canft mufter. 


Si es que hay defenfa que bade 


If aught aid can flop the bloody 


A la fangrienta venganza 


Vengeance of two jealous lovers. 


De dos zelofos amantes. 




Circe. 


Circe. 


\ Calla, calla, no profigas ! 


Ceafe, oh ! ceafe, proceed no more ! 


Ni lleguen ecos marciales 


Nor let martial echoes thunder 


A los oidos de Ulifes, 


In the clofed ears of Ulyffesj 


Aqui tengo de dejarle 


Buried in a foothing flumber 


Sepultado en blando fueiio. 


Him I mean to leave here lying. 


Porque el belicofo alarde 


That again war's glorious hubbub 


No pueda de mi amor nunca 


His remembrance, his afFedlion, 


Dividirle, ni olvidarle ; 


Never from my love may funder. 


Que yo con vofotras folas 


I alone with you will go 


Saldre a veneer arrogante. 


This proud boafter's pride to humble. 


Tu mi caudillo feras, 


Thou my general wilt be ; 


y no temas, que te falten 


Fear not that no troops will mufter 


Gentes ; que aunque fon tan pocos 


At thy call ; for though few foldiers 


Los foldados de mi parte, 


Have I on my fide to fummon. 


Yo armadas hueiles pondre 


I can on the fields of air 


En las campaiias del aire. 


Show arm'd hofts in countlefs numbers. 


Que con tropas de caballos. 


Who in companies of horfe. 


Con efcuadrones de infantes. 


Who in fquadrons of light foot-men. 


Fantafticamente lidien. 


Will fantaftically fight. 


Y fingidamente marchen. 


Will in phantom files manoeuvre ; 


Y porque entre tantas fombras 


And that thou may'ft with thefe fhadows 


Vivas efcuadras no falten. 


Lack not living hofts among them, 


Todas vofotras, armadas 


All of you, my maidens, arm'd 


Con efcudos de diamante. 


With your dazzling diamond bucklers. 


Galas defnudad de Venus, 


Dofi^ the filken robes of Venus, 


Tunicas veftid de Marte. 


And put on Mars' martial tunics. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 121 


Cafandra. 


CaJJandra. 


Efta vida, 7 efte pecho 


I this life, this bofom offer 


Te ofrezco yo de mi parte. 


Thee on my part in thy trouble. 


Clori. 


Chloris. 


Yo, que conozcan los hombres 


I that men may know how much 


Cuanto las mugeres valen. 


Woman's courage may be trufted. 


Sirene. 


Sirene. 


Hoy el fol fera teftigo 


On my valour will the fun 


De mi valor arrogante. 


Gaze to-day with looks of wonder. 


TiJbe. 


Thijhe. 


De nueftro poder hare 


Of our power the world no more 


Que el mundo fe defengaiie. 


Shall make light, as is its cuftom. 


^ AJirea. 


AJirea. 


A Palas veras armada 


I a Pallas fhall be thought, 


Cada vez que me mirares. 


Every time in arms I ftruggle. 


Z/^/V. 


Libia. 


A mi a Venus, pues veras 


I a Venus, fince thou'lt fee 


A mis pies rendido a Marte^ 


Mars beneath my feet made fubjeft. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Pues con efa coniianza. 


Thus then confident and bold 


Toca al arma. 


Sound the charge. 


Cafandra. 


Cajfandra. 


Suene el parche. 


Ring out the trumpets. 


Clori. 


Chloris. 


Hiera la trompeta el eco. 


Let the drums awake the echoes. 


Sirene. 


Sirene. 


El bronce oprimido brame. 


And the bugles blare and blufter. 


TiJbe. 


Thijbe. 


El fuego reviente. 


Let the fire burft forth. 


AJirea. 


AJirea. 


Sea 


And be 


Toda Trinacria volcanes. 


All Trinacria but one furnace. 


Libia. 


Libia, 


El duro horror de las armas 


At the horrid din of arms 


Cielo, mar y tierra efpante. 


Let heaven, earth, and ocean Ihudder. 


Flerida. 


Flerida. 


Y viva Circe, prodigio 


And live Circe, of thefe feas. 


Deftos montes y eilos mares. 


Of thefe mountains, the fair wonder. 



122 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 


Circe. 


Circe, 


Porque a los brazos de Uiifes, 


That fhe to Ulyffes' arms— 


Que en mudo letargo yace. 


Who lies there in filent numbnefs. 


Vuelva rica de defpojos. 


Still enamour'd and ftill conftant — 


Enamorada y conftante. \_VanJe. 


May, enrich'd with fpoils, return here. 




\Exeunt. 


Monte. 


A Mountain. 


Salen Arsidas, Lisidas j Soldados. 


Enter Arsidas, Lysidas, and Soldiers, 


Arjidas. 


Arfidas. 


Defde efta excelfa cumbre. 


From this ftupendous height, 


Que del fol fe atrevio a tocar la lumbre. 


Which dares to touch the fun's refplen- 


Y altiva y eminente. 


dent light. 


Coronada de rayos la alta frente. 


And in its dazzling blaze 


Es immenfa coluna 


Crowns its proud forehead with the 


De efe concavo alcazar de la luna. 


golden rays ; — 


Entre celages de rubi y topacio 


From this proud pillar-top 


De Circe le defcubre el real palaclo. 


Which the fair moon's blue palace-dome 


1 Ea pues, mis foldados. 


doth prop. 


Que valientes, intrepidos y ofados. 


'Twixt topaz clouds and ruby viftas we 


En favor de los cielos 


The palace halls of Circe now may fee. 


Manteneis la milicia de mis zelos ! 


Then on, brave foldiers ! bold. 


Hoy efte afombro muera. 


Valiant, intrepid, refolute, enroll'd 


Perezca hoy la memoria defta fiera, 


By favour of the Ikies, 


Que a Trinacria eftos campos tiraniza. 


The avenging army of my jealouHes ! 


Siendo el Flegra fu hoguera y fu ceniza. 


To-day muft die this terror of the earth, 


Libremos pues a tantos 


This witch's memory fade as if fhe 


Como tienen fus magicos encantos 


ne'er had birth ; 


Prefos aqui, y cautivos ; 


She who Trinacria tramples in the mire. 


Queden pues 6 bien muertos, 6 bien 


Its Phlegra fhe, its fount of afhes, fmoke 


vivos. 


and fire. 


Refcatemos valientes 


This day we muft fet free 


Nuertra patria de tantos accidentes. 


The many whom by cruel forcery 


Y dejemos feguro efte camino 


She holds imprifon'd here in piteous 


Al naufrago piloto, al peregrino. 


ftate. 


Quehall6,cadaverdeeftasgrutashondas, 


Whom living we muft loofe, or dead 


Mas tormenta en las penas, que en las 


avenge their fate. 


ondas, 


Let us, brave comrades mine, 

i 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 



23 



Cuando pifo por eftos horizontes 

Montes de agua y pielagos de montes. 

Y tu, Lifidas fuerte, 

A cuya voz fe retire la muerte, 

Hoy a FJerida libra foberana 

De la injufta prifion de una tirana, 

O vengate hoy en ella. 

Si tus zelos te olvidan de querella. 



Lijidas. 
Arfidas, valerofo 
Principe de Trinacria, no zelofo 
yV\ venganza prevengo ; 
Que no tengo los zelos que no tengo, 
Porque ya fe, que ha fido 
Un cautelofo amor, amor fingido. 
El que Flerida a Ulifes le mollraba, 
Porque efe Esiinge all fe lo mandaba. 
No zelofo en efefto, enamorado 
Si, que vengo, atrevido y defpechado 
A refcater a Flerida, que bella 
Es de los cielos llor, del campo ellrella. 

Y all a tu lado juro 

Por efe hermofo roficler, que puro 
Mirado, nos deflumbra, 

Y no mirado, a todos nos alumbra, 
De no dejarte, halla mirar poftrada 
Al fuego de tu enojo efta encantada 



Save now our country from fuch plagues 

malign. 
And leave this fea-way clear 
To fhip-wreck'd pilot and lone mariner. 
Who found, a cold corfe in thefe hollow 

caves. 
More torment 'mid the rocks, than out 

upon the waves. 
Though on this wild horizon his frail 

' home 
Had been high mountain waves and 

watery hills of foam. 
And thou, brave Lyfidas, for whom 
Death in indulgent mood re-oped the 

tomb. 
Thou wilt to-day fair Flerida fet free 
From a dread tyrant's dread captivity. 
Or elfe thy vengeance let her prove. 
If in thy jealous rage thou canll forget 

thy love. 

Lyfidas. 
Arlidas, valiant knight, 
Trinacria's prince, no jealous torch doth 

light 
My vengeful path to Circe's bower again. 
For I no more, no more;, can feel that 

bitter pain. 
Knowing, as now I know, 
'Twas falfe, feign'd love, 'twas love's 

deceptive fhow 
That to Ulyffes Flerida difplay'd— 
The feint was order'd, and fhe but 

obey'd. 
'Tis not with jealoufy I come, but love. 
Ardent, devoted, defperate, to remove 
From this foul fpot fair Flerida, that fair 
Flower of the faireft field, and flar of 

cleareft air ; 
And fo, belide thee now. 



124 EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR. 


Selva de amor, donde, por mas efpanto. 


By that fair planet's rofy light I vow — 


Es el amor hoy fu mayor encanto. 


That planet v^^hich when feen ftrikes 


Aunque en fus campos, que el Abril 


blind the fight. 


dibuja, 


And which unfeen ftill fills the world 


O brame el auftro, .6 la arboleda cruja. 


with light- 




To leave thee not until thy wrathful 




mood 




Strikes down each tree of this enchanted 




wood. 




This bower of love, — where we to-day 




revere 




Love, as the greateft of enchantments 




here, — 




Like as when on the April-painted meads 




The fouth-wind roars, the ftrong boughs 




bend like reeds. 


Arjidas. 


Arfidas. 


Guerra de amor y zelos 


This war of love allied with jealoufy 


Pavor pondra a los cielos. 


Shall wake the fear, the wonder of the 




Iky. 


Foces dentro. 


Voices within. 


i Cierra, Trinacria, cierra ! [Cajas. 


On ! for Trinacria's right ! 


bifida s. 


Lyfidas. 


Ya de alia nos refponden. 


Yonder they anfwer. 


Voces dentro. 


Voices within. 


Guerra, guerra ! 


To the fight, the fight ! 


Soldad, 


A Soldier. 


i Ay, Arfidas, advierte. 


Oh ! hear me, Arfidas, oh ! hear and 


Que a morir nos trajifte ! 


Hay, 




You lead us but to death here. 


Arfidas. 


Arfitdas. 


De que fuerte ? 


In what way? — 


Soldad. 


Soldier. 


Dijifte, que no habia 


You told us that we fhould 


Armas, ni gente en efla felva umbria. 


Nor men nor arms here meet within 


Y apenas tus foldados 


this fhadowy wood. 


Han falido del mar, cuando embofcados 


And fcarce your foldiers made 


En efa felva vieron 


A landing from their ihips, when from 


Infantes y caballos, que falieron 


an ambufcade 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 125 


A defender la entrada 


Within the wood they faw 


Del monte. 


Horfemen and footmen to its outikirts 

draw, 
The entrance to defend 






That to the mountain leads. 


Arjtdas. 


Arfidas. 


No temais, no temais nada ; 


Fear naught, fear naught, my friend. 


Que efos monftruos incultos 


For all thefe monftrous fwarms 


Son fantafticas formas, que no bultos. 


Are bodilefs fhapes, are falfe fantaftic 


No hay que temer ellragos. 


forms ; 


Que fus heridas folo Ton amagos ; 


No need to fear fuch foes 


Que tarde ejecutadas. 


Whofe very fwords can deal but phan- 


Se quedan en el aire fenaladas. 


tom blows. 




Which flowly dealt. 




But by the yielding air are only felt. 


Lijidas. 


Lyfidas. 


Y tan cobardes fueron, [hirieron. 


And coward-like. 


Que, amenazando fiempre, nunca 


Who threaten ever, but who never Ilrike. 


Soldad. 


Soldier. 


I Como, ii ya, caufando al fol defmayos, 


How, if already the feared funlight dies 


Truenos abortan, y defpiden rayos ? 


And thunders rattle and the lightning 




flies? 


Arfidas. 


Arfidas. 


Yo he de fer el primero. 


I will be lirll this panic to fubdue. 


Que efe pavor os quite ; altivo y fiero 


And with undaunted daring to burft 


Penetrare la fierra. 


through 




This magic mountain's marge. 


Lifidas. 


Lyfidas. 


Todos te feguiremos. 


We all Ihall follow where you lead. 


Todos. 


All. 


Gaerra, guerra .' 


Charge ! charge ! — 


Arfidas. 


Arfidas. 


I Ha cautelofo Griego, 


Ha ! wily Greek, [rhetoric ! 


Sal a apagar retorico efte fuego ! 


Forth, and appeafe this fire with all thy 


Salen Circe jy las mugeres con 


Circe and her women enter with 


ejpadas. 


drawn fwords. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


No faldra, fmo yo ; que la memoria 


He comes not forth, but I ; it were amifs 

1 



126 EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR. 


No ]e ha de embarazar tan breve gloria. 


To have his thoughts dillurb'd for glory 




fuch as this. 


AJtrea. 


Aflrea. 


Ninguno quede vivo. 


Spare not their lives ! 


Flerida. 


Flerida, 


Ni iin amante, que vuelve vengativo 


Not even a lover's, who for vengeance 


Sin zelos. 


ftrives. 




Though jealoufy-cured. 


Lijidas. 


Lyfidas. 


Tu me ofendes, y yo te ofendo. 


Thou me doll, and I thee offend. 


Que mas mi fama que tu amor pretendo. 


For more than to thy love I to my fame 




pretend. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Segur de vueftros cuellos 


Before the day is gone 


Hoy feran nueilras armas. j A elJos ! 


Your necks Ihall ftain our fwords. On 




them! 


Todos. 


AIL 


i A ellos ! 


On! on! 


A r fid as. 


Arfidas. 


En batalla tan dura 


In fuch a battle and with fuch a foe 


No atienda hoy el refpeto a la hermofara. 


Beauty to-day its homage mufi: forego : 


Preflo, Circe, feras tu mi trofeo. 


Soon, Circe, foon thy trophy crowns 




my might. 


Libia. 


Libia. 


\ O que bonitamente lo peleo ! 


Juft look, how very prettily I fight. 


\_Dafe la batalla y retiranje los 


[The battle is joined and the men 


hombres. 


give way. 


Palacio de Circe. 


Circe's Palace. 


Sale Lebrel, y Clarin de mona. 


Enter Lebrel, and Clarin as a monkey. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Pues nos dejo Circe, y pues 


Now that Circe's gone, and we 


A puerta cerrada eftamos. 


Here are left, both you and I, 


Y tan folos nos hallamos. 


With clofed doors, and no one by. 


Tiempo, Dona Marta, es 


'Tis an opportunity 


De tomar una licion. 


For a leifon ; fo, my pet. 


Ya la vuelta os enferie 


As I lately taught you, tumble. 



LOFE THE GREJTEST ENCHANTMENT. 127 


Del rodezno ; como fue ? 


Try the wheel-trick — do not grumble — 


[Foltea. 


\Clarin tumbles. 


; All bien, teneis razon ! 


Pretty well, you'll do it yet. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


\ Que aquefto pafe por mi ! 


What a fate is mine ! thy laws 


i Y que en iin haya de fer. 


Nature thus to fo maltreat — 


voltear, 6 no comer ! 


I muft tumble or not eat ! 


Defdichado hablador fui. 


Wretched babbler that I was. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Ahora, Marta, ponte en pie. 


Jocko, now on hands and feet. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Ello en fin no hay replicar. 


All remonftrance being pail:. 


no comer, 6 voltear. \_Foltea. 


I muft tumble or muft faft. [Tumbles. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


i Lindamente, por mi fe ! 


By my faith, you're quite complete ! 


Ahora, porque li yo 


Now, as here I hav'n't got 


No tengo quien de veflir 


An attendant when I drefs. 


Me de, uced me ha de fervir ; 


You your worfhip can't do lefs 


Tome aquefle efpejo, y no 


Than be valet on the fpot. 


Le quiebre, porque es azar, 


Take the glafs, don't break it though, — 


Y vengafe tras mi en pie. 


On your hind legs ! that's the place. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Que cara tengo vere 


Now at length my monkey face 


De mona. Hay mayor pefar ? 


I can have a peep at. Oh ! 


i Valgame Jupiter fanto. 


Holy Jove, above who eyes me. 


Que hocico ! 


What a fnout ! 


\En mirandofe al efpejo fe le cae 


[At feeing himfelf in the mirror, he 


el veftido de mona. 


lofes the appearance of a monkey. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Quien aqui hablo ? 


Who fpeaks fo nigh ? 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


I Quien ha de fer, fino yo ? 


Why, who could it be, but I ? 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


De verte, Clarin, me efpanto. 


Clarin here ? you quite furprife me. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Yo Clarin ? muy bueno es efo ! 


Clarin I ? that's good of you ! 


Mona Toy. 


I'm a monkey. 


Lebrel 


Lebrel. 


I Donde efcondido ? . . . 


Where were you hidden ? 



128 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 


Mas la mona fe me ha ido. 


But the monkey oiF has Hidden. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Ya otra admiracion confiefo. 


This my wonder wakes anew. 


LebreL 


LebreL 


I Sabes por donde fe fue 


Did you fee what way retired 


La mona, que aqui tenia ? 


The pet monkey that I had? 


Clarin. 


Clarin, 


Yo foy. 


I am he. 


Z^^r^/. 


LebreL 


Linda boberia ! 


That's not fo bad, — 


Por la mona pregunte. 


'Twas for the monkey I inquired. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Pues yo foy. 


I am he, I fay. 


Salen Antistes y los Griegos con 


Enter Antistes, and the Greeks 


Unas armas. 


bearing pieces of armour. 


Antiftes. 


Antiftes. 


Quien efla aqui ? 


Who's here ? 


Clarin. 


Clarin, 


Los dos. 


We two. 


LebreL 


LebreL 


1 Que, porque viniefe 


Plague on't ! for this flunky 


Clarin, la mona fe fuefe ! 


Turning up, I've loft my monkey — 


Tiempo y trabajo perdi. 


Time and trouble too, I fear. 


Antifies. 


Antiftes. 


Dime, Lebrel, i donde efla .... 


Do you know, Lebrel, where is .... ? 


LebreL 


LebreL 


La mona ? No fe, ay de mi ! 


My poor monkey ? no, ah ! me. 


Antiftes, 


Antiftes. 


Ulifes ? te digo. 


Tut ! I meant Ulyffes. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


Alii. 


See. 


Defcubrefe un trono, donde eft a Ulises 


A throfie is difcovered, and on it 


durmiendo. 


VhYssEs fteeping. 


Antiftes. 


Antiftes. 


Entrar podeis todos ya ; 


Softly tread this room of his : — 


Que pues aqui retirado 


Since remote from any hum 


A Ulifes Circe dejo. 


Circe left Ulyifes here. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 129 

1 


Cuando al mar a ver falio 


When fhe went to fee anear 


Las naves que habian llegado. 


The great navy that had come. 


Efte es el tiempo mejor. 


'Tis the time to triumph o'er 


Para veneer fus extremes ; 


Charms that fo his foul have bow'd. 


Y puello que no podemos 


And fince we are not allow'd 


Avifarle con rumor 


To advife him by the roar 


De armas, hoy de Aquiles fea 


Of the drums, his trumpet be 


El arnes fu trompa. Aqui 


Now, Achilles' harnefs bright,— 


Le dejemos, porque afi. 


Place it there within his fight. 


Cuando defpierte, le vea. 


That when waking he may fee. 


Tim antes. 


Timantes. 


Acuerdele mudo el 


Mute may it recall the round 


Las battalias, que vencio. 


Of the battles that he won. 


Cuando en campana fe vio 


Of the fields he flood upon. 


Coronado de laurel. 


With the viflor laurel crown'd. 


Para que defpertador 


May it from delufive charms, 


De tantos olvidos fea. 


Wake him foon to manlier deed. 


Arquelao. 


Archelaus, 


Quien no creyo la voz, crea 


He who heeds no voice, may heed 


Las infignias del valor. 


The reproachful ruft of arms. 


\Ponenle a los pies las armas. 


[_They place the armour at his feet. 


Polidoro. 


Polydorus. 


Trofeos, que foberanos 


Trophies of a realm fubdued. 


Troya entre cenizas llora. 


Trophies Troy in afhes weeps. 


Y aun eftais fudando ahora 


Since along your bright mail creeps 


La fangre de los Troyanos, 


Still the fweat of Trojan blood ; 


Volved por vos, y entre viles 


No bafe ftain of low delire 


Amores no os permitais 


Let difgraceful love fling o'er you. 


Empanar, pues aun guardais 


Wake, by thoughts of him who bore 


El muerto calor de Aquiles. 


you. 


\_Fanfe, y defpierta Ulises. 


Dead Achilles' martial fire. 




[^Exeunt all. 


Ulifes. 


Vlyffes [azvaking.) 


Pefado letargo ha fido 


Lead-like lethargy, it furely 


Efte a que rendido eftuve. 


Muft have been that I lay under, — 


Ni bien vida, ni bien fueiio. 


Neither wholly life, nor fleeping. 


Sino letal pefadumbre 


But a dark lethean dulnefs 


De los fentidos, que torpes. 


Of the fenfes, which, grown torpid. 


Ni defcanfan, ni difcurren. 


Neither moved, nor wholly flumber'd. 



I30 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 


Crepufculos fon del alma, 


Twilights of the foul were they, 


Paes obran entre dos luces. 


That 'twixt day and darknefs ftruggled. 


Quien efla aqui ? Solo eftoy. 


Who is here ? I am alone. 


I Pues como fin Circe pude 


Ah ! how can I live one flutter 


Vivir un inftante ? Bien, 


Of the heart without my Circe ? 


Que eftaban fin luz, prefumen 


Well my thoughts divined the murky 


Mis fentidos, pues fin fol 


Dark near, lince without the fun 


Aun todo el cielo no luce. 


Heaven itfelf difplays no luftre. 


Circe! Circe! mifeiiora! 


Circe ! Circe ! my feiiora. 


j Que mal tanta aufencia fuple 


For thy abfence, all I fuffer 


Tu memoria! — Mas que veo ? 


Memory poorly pays for. But, 


El grabado arnes ilullre 


What is this ? the graved refulgent 


De Aquiles a mis pies yace. 


Armour of Achilles lieth 


Torpe, olvidado e inutil. 


At my feet forgot, unufed. 


Bien ella a mis pies, porque 


Rightly at my feet, becaufe 


Rendido a mi amor fe juzgue. 


To my love it deems it fubjeft. 


Y fegunda vez en mi 


And a fecond time in me 


Amor de Marte fe burle. 


Viftor Love o'er Mars exulteth. 


Tarde, olvidado trofeo 


All too late, forgotten trophy 


Del valor, a darme acudes 


Of true valour, doft thou come here 


Socorro contra mi mifmo ; 


Succour 'gainft myfelf to give me ; 


Que aunque contra mi me ayudes. 


Since though 'gainft myfelf thy fuccour 


Hoy colgado en efte templo 


Giv'ft thou, in this fane fufpended 


Quedaras, donde fepulten 


Must thou here remain, where buried 


Sus olvidos tus memorias. 


Shall thy memory be forgotten. 


El Efpiritu de AquiLEs, defde el centra 


The Jhade of AcniLh^s fro?n below . 


de la tierra. 




Aquiles. 


Achilles. 


i No le ofendas, no le injuries ! 


Mock them not ; do not infult them. 


Vlifes. 


_ Ulyjfes. 


I Que voz es efta, que en mi 


Ah ! what voice is this that makes me 


Tan nuevo pavor infunde ? 


In my inmoft heart to ftiudder ? 


[ Toe an dentro cojas dejiempladas y 


\_A mournful march of muffled dru7ns 


una fordina. 


and trumpets is heard from below. 


iK quien deftempJadas trompas. 


Ah ! for whofe fad obfequies 


Exequias figuen lugubres ? 


Play thefe mournful drums and trumpets ? 


I Quien caufa efte efedlo ? 


Who occafions this ? 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 13, 


Aquiles {debajo de tie^-ra). 


Achilles {from below). 


Quien 


One who 


A fus venganzas acude. 


To take ftern revenge doth come here. 


Vlijes. 


Ulyjfes, 


Si ojos tengo con que mire. 


If I can believe my eyes. 


Si oidos tengo con que efcuche. 


If my hearing can be trufted. 


En el centro de la tierra 


From the centre of the earth 


Sono la voz, 7 no fufre 


Came that voice, the earth that fuffers 


Ella aun de fu grave faz 


Not upon its heavy face 


La arrugada pefadumbre ; 


Even the movement of a mufcle ; 


Pues abre para quejarfe 


Since a mouth is open'd wide 


Una boca, y de ella efcupe 


For complaint, from which is fputter'd 


Pardas nubes de humo y fuego. 


Denfeft clouds of fmoke and fire. 


I Cuando, contra la coilumbre. 


When, againft all ufual cuftom. 


En el centro de la tierra 


In the centre of the earth. 


Forjan fus rayos las nubes ? 


Have the clouds forged flafhing thunders ? 


\_Abreje una boca^y f ale fuego. 


[_An abyfs opens from which fire burfts 




forth. 


A mas el afombro pafa ; 


Higher ftill my terror rifes ; 


Trifle un monumento fube 


From the abyfs, a fad fepulchral 


De fu abifmo, haciendo un caos 


Tomb arifes, making chaos [wreaths. 


De vapores y viflumbres. 


With its fleams and glimmering dun- 


Va Jubiendo un fepulcro, y en el 


A tomb arifes from the abyfs, and in it 


Aquiles, cubierto de un velo. 


is Achilles covered with a veil. 


tu, que en leves cenizas. 


dread fhape, that in light afhes. 


Qi-ie aun el viento no facude. 


Which not even the wind difturbeth. 


En efe fepulcro yaces. 


Lieft in this fepulchre. 


Quien eres ? 


Say, who art thou ? 


Aquiles. 


Achilles. 


Porque no dudes 


That all further 


Quien Toy, efle negro velo 


Doubt fhould end, this black veil lift, 


Corre, y mi afpefto defcubre. 


And my countenance difcover. 


[Defcubrele Ulises. 


[Ulysses raifes the veil. 


Conocefme ? 


Doft thou know me ? 


_ Ulifes. 


Vlyjfes. 


Si me deja 


If I may 


Efpecies con que te juzgue 


Truft the tefts wherev^ith to judge the 


Lo palido de tu faz. 


Afhy palenefs of thy face, 



132 EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR, 


Que no hay vifta que no turbe. 


i 
Which no light can fee untroubled. 


Lo yerto de tu efqueleto. 


And thy lliffen'd ikeleton, 


Que aun desiigurado luce, 


Which, though maim'd, retains fuch 


Aquiles, Aquiles eres. 


luftre. 




Thou Achilles art, Achilles. 


Aquiles. 


Achilles. 


Su efpiritu loy iluftre. 


I his fpirit am, fo bruited. 


Que de los elilios campos. 


Who from the Elyfian fields, my 


Donde eterna manfion tuve, 


Everlafting home and country, 


Volvi a pafar de Aqueronte 


Have pafs'd through the green and azure 


Las verdinegras y azules 


Waves of Acheron, thick gummy 


Ondas, derretidas gomas 


Molten mires of fire and brimftone, 


Del falitre y del azufre. 


Pools of nitre and of fulphur. 


A cobrar vengo mis armas. 


To reclaim once more my arms. 


Porque el amor no las juzgue 


So that Love may never judge them 


Ya de fu templo defpojo, 


Of his temple the proud fpoil. 


Torpe, olividado e inutil ; 


Idle, all forgot, and ufelefs ; 


Porque no quieren los diofes. 


For the gods no longer wilh 


Que otro dueno las injurie. 


That another lord Ihould ruft them. 


Sino que en mi fepultura 


But that buried in my tomb 


A par de los figlos duren. 


They fhould laft while years are num- 


Y tu, afeminado Griego, 


ber'd. 


Que, entre las delicias dulces 


And, O thou effeminate Greek, 


Del amor, de negras fombras 


Who, amid the foft indulgence 


Tantos efplendores cubres. 


Of weak love, fo many fplendours 


No entre amorofos encantos 


In thick ebon fliades doft cover, — 


Las tengas y las defluilres. 


Not in amorous enchantments 


Sino rompiendo de amor 


Shouldft thou let them lofe their luftre. 


Las magicas inquietudes. 


But the magic- woven web 


Sal de Trinacria, y hollando 


Of love's paffionate joys and troubles 


Al mar los vidrios azules. 


Breaking, fly Trinacria, and 


A difcrecion de los vientos 


Treading the fea's glafs-blue furface. 


Sus pavimentos difcurre ; 


At the winds' difcretion feud 


Que en la curia de los diofes 


O'er its level lawns unruffled. 


Quieren, que otra vez los fulques. 


For it is the gods' decree 


Hafta que de mi fepulcro 


That once more your curved prow cuts 


Las muertas aras faludes. 


them. 


Y en el efas armas cuelgues. 


Till the funeral altars ftanding 


No lo ignores, no lo dudes. 


Ey my far tomb thou faluteft. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT 133 


haras, que un rayo, con voces 


And in it thefe arms fufpend. 


Que horrible un trueno pronuncie, 


Be not doubtful or reludant. 


Segunda vez te lo mande. 


If thou wouldft not that a flalh. 


Cuando en abortada lumbre 


Lightning-red, with voice of thunder. 


Defatadas fus cenizas. 


This command fhould give once more, 


Aun, antes que ardan, ahumen. 


When in the fwift-born refulgence 


[Hundefe. 


Shall its fcatter'd afhes fteam. 




Ere to burning duft they crumble. 




\He Jinks down. 


Ulifes. 


Ulyfes. 


Efpera, helado cadaver. 


Stay, oh ! ftay, cold frozen corfe, 


Que afombro y horror infundes. 


Thou that with fuch fear doft ftun me. 


Que yo poftrada te doy 


For my promife I now give thee 


Palabra .... Todo fe hunde. 


Proftrate here .... But all hath funken. 


Pefada imaginacion 


Some oppreffive fearful fancy 


Fue la que en mis fueiios tuve ; 


Was it that dillurb'd my {lumbers ; 


Pero, aunque fonada, es bien 


But although mere dreams, 'twere well 


Que la crea, y no la dude. 


Not to doubt them, but to truft them. 


Saknlos Griegos, 


Enter the Greeks. 


Antiftes. 


Antijles. 


Senor, que es ello ? 


What is this, my lord ? 


Timantes. 


Timantes. 


Que tienes ? 


What wouldft thou ? 


Polidoro. 


Polydorus. 


I Que accidente hay, que te turbe ? 


What hath happen'd, that difturbs thee? 


Arquelao. 


Archelaus. 


I De que das voces al aire ? 


Why fill all the air with outcries ? 


Floro. 


F lor us. 


I Que temor hay, que te ocupe ? 


Whence this fear that fo ufurps thee P 


LebreL 


LebreL 


\ Que no parezca la mona. 


Though I've gone through all the moun- 


Aunque todo el monte anduve ! 


tain. 




Ah ! I cannot meet my monkey ! 


Antifies, 


Antijies. 


De que te afombras ? 


What doth fright thee fo ? 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


i De que 


At what 


Te rezelas ? 


Doft thou ftiake ? 



134 ^^ MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR. 


LebreL 


LebreL 


De quien huyes ? 


From whom wouldft run here ? 


Vlifes. 


Ulyfes. 


De mi mifmo. 


From myfelf. 


Antiftes, 


Antifles, 


Pues I que tienes ? 


Oh ! fay, what haft thou . . . 


Vlijes. 


Vlyjfes. 


Nada tengo, mucho tuve. 


I had much, I now have nothing. 


; Ay amigos ! tiempo es ya, 


Ah ! my friends, it now is time 


Que a los enganos me ufurpe 


To fubdue the greateft, fubtleft 


Del mayor encanto, y hoy 


Of enchantments, and this day 


El valor del amor triunfe. 


To crown valour love's triumpher. — 


I Donde ella, donde fe ha ido 


Where is Ihe, fay, where has gone 


Circe? 


Circe? 


Antijles. 


Antifles, 


A efa ribera acude. 


To the fhore Ihe hurried. 


Defpues que aqui nos dejo, 


When fhe left us here, to fee 


A ver, que bajeles furgen 


Whofe the fhips that in the gulf there 


A efte golfo. 


Had dropp'd anchor. 


Vlifes. 


Vlyfes. 


Pues en tanto 


Then while thus 


Que defcuidada prefume. 


She fo careiefsly prefumeth 


Que los encantos de amor 


That the witchery of love 


Firmes en mi pecho duren. 


Still within my heart endureth. 


Por efla parte, que el mar 


By this path, to where the fea 


Siempre repetido furte 


Heaves inceffantly and furges 


Alras montanas, de quien 


Up the lofty mountains, whofe 


Turbante han fido las nubes. 


Heads the dark clouds crown with tur- 


SaJgamos, y por no hacer 


bans. 


Ruido, y que ella nos efcuche. 


Let us go, and for lefs noife. 


No el bajel, fino el efquife 


Left fhe hear and mar our purpofe. 


Tomemos, y en el ... . 


Not the veifel, but the boat 




Let us take, and in it ... . 


Antijles. 


Antifles. 


No dudes. 


Truft thee. 


Vlifes. 


Vlyffes. 


Huyamos de aqui ; que hoy 


Fly from here ; for flight to-day 


Es huir accion iluftre. 


Is an aft as brave as prudent. 


Pues los encantos de amor 


Since the forceries of love. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 135 


Los vence aquel que los huye. 


He alone who flies, fubdueth. 


Jntlftes. 


Antiftes. 


Las lagrimas te refpondan. 


Let thefe tears of ours be anfwer. 


Ulifes. 


Vlyjfes. 


Hermofa Juno, no culpes 


Lovely Juno, oh ! excufe the 


El mayor encanto amor ; 


Greateft of enchantments. Love, 


Pues, aunque tus flores tuve. 


Since although thy flowers I flourifli'd. 


Pude veneer mil encantos. 


Which a thoufand fpells could conquer. 


Y aquelle folo no pude. 


This one only was above me. 


Lebrel. 


Lebrel. 


Al fin me voy fin mi mona. 


So in fine I lofe my monkey. 


Clarin. 


Clarin. 


I Que hafla ahora, que fui, dades ? 


Doubt you ftill 'twas 1, you dullard ? 


[Fanfe. 


\Exeunt. 


Orillas del Mar, frente al Palacio 


The Sea-shore in front of Circe's 


DE Circe. 


Palace. 


Salen, marchando, Circe y fus Damasy 


Enter Circe and her ladies ^ marching 


que traen prefos a Arsidasj Lisidas. 


with Arsidas and Lysidas as pri- 




foners. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Hagan falva a mis palacios 


Hail my palace-walls, ye clarions. 


Los animados clarines. 


With your proud notes wake its filence ! 


Las cajas y las trompetas. 


Drums and trumpets, with your powers 


Porque fus voces publiquen. 


All the liftening world enlighten. 


Que de Arfidas viftoriofa 


That o'er Arfidas viftorious. 


Hoy, y de Lifidas, Circe 


And o'er Lyfidas, comes Circe 


Coronada de trofeos. 


Back again, encrown'd with trophies. 


Vuelve a los brazos de Ulifes. 


To the fond arms of UlyflTes ! 


Arfidas. 


Arfidas. 


Bien, Circe, podre negarte. 


That 'twas valour that fubdued me. 


Que valiente me vencifte. 


Circe, I could well deny thee. 


Magica no, que mis gentes 


That 'twas magic, no ; my people, 


A tus apariencias rindes. 


By thy apparitions frighten'd. 


Pues huyeron de las huelles. 


Fled before the hofts of phantoms 


Que aparentemente finges. 


That thy fubtle fkill depidted. 


Lifidas. 


Lyfidas. 


A facar de tu poder 


To withdraw fair Flerida 



136 EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR. 


A Flerida hermofa vine ; 


From thy power came I hither ; 


I Como pude defenderme. 


How could I defend myfelf 


Si ella mifma es quien me rinde ? 


When 'twas fhe contended with me ? 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Pues fi prefo eftas por ella. 


If for her thou'rt here in chains. 


Tambien por ella eftas libre. — 


Then for her be free this inftant. 


Uiifes, invifto Griego, 


From thefe rich-rofed gardens fair. 


Sal de efos ricos jardines, 


Come, unvanquifh'd Greek ! UlyfTes ! 


Porque de zelos y amor 


And tread down the fallen pomps 


Las caducas pompas pifes. 


Love and jealoufy once lit here. 


Advierte, que viftoriofa. 


See with what a viftor air. 


Llena de aplaufos infignes. 


Led by plaufive trumps and timbrels. 


Vuelvo a tus brazos, porque 


I refeek thy arms, for only 


Triunfe en ellos. — Mas ay trifte ! 


There I triumph ; but why thrills me 


\_Suena un claron. 


[^ trumpet founds. 


I Que baftarda trompa es efta. 


So this boding bugle, this 


Afpid de metal, que gime 


Snake of metal, whofe throat hiiTes 


Al aire ? 


On the air ? 


Flerida. 


Flerida. 


En el mar, fenora. 


From fea, Seiiora, 


Sono la voz. 


Comes the found. 


Libia. 


Libia. 


Y el efquife 


And fee the fkiiF there 


De efe griego bajel, hecho 


Of the Grecian v^^d, making 


Al mar, fus campaiias mide. 


From the ftiore acrofs the ftill fea. 


Afirea. 


AJirea. 


Uiifes defde el te habla; 


And UlyfTes from it fpeaks ; 


Efcucha lo que te dice. 


Hearken to his words, oh ! liften. 


Uiifes [dentro). 


Ulyffes {within). 


Afperos montes del Flegra, 


Rugged mountains of wild Phlegra, 


Cuya eminencia compite 


Whofe exceffive heights are pitted 


Con el cielo, pues fus puntas 


'Gainft the Iky, becaufe their proud peaks 


Con las eftrellas fe miden^ 


With the ftars of Heaven are mingled. 


Yo fui de vueftros venenos 


I was o'er your many poifons 


Triunfador, Tefeo felice 


The triumpher, of your circled 


Fui de vueftros laberintos. 


Labyrinth the happy Thefeus, 


Y Edipo de vueftra esfinge. 


CEdipus of all your fphinxes ; 


Del mayor encanto amor 


From thy greateft of enchantments 


La razon me faco libre. 


Love, hath reafon me deliver 'd. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT 137 


Trafladando efos palacios 
A los campos de Anfitrite. 


All your palaces exchanging 
For the fields of Amphitrite. 


Voces {dentro). 


Voices within. 


Buen viage ! 

Flerida. 


Pleafant voyage! 

Flerida. 


Buen viage, 
Todos los vientos repiten. 


Pleafant voyage 
All the winds appear to wilh them. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


Efcucha, tirano griego, 


Liften, lifhen, tyrant Greek ! 


Efpera, enganofo UJifes, 
Pues te habla, no cruel. 


Stay, deceitful, falfe Ulyffes, 
Since 'tis not the cruel queen 


Sino enamorada Circe. 


Calls thee, but the love-lorn Circe. 


Cuando vidoriofa yo 


When, that thou might'ft tread them 


Triunfos arraftro, que pifes. 


down. 


I Quieres, que vencida llore ? 

^- Quieres, que me queje humilde ? 

Efcucha !— Mas j ay trifte ! 

No llore quien te pierde, ni fufpire. 

Si te dan, para hacer mejor camino. 


Triumphs for thy feet I bring thee, 
Wouldil thou, conquering, I Ihould 

v^eep, 
Wouldft thou weakly Ifhould whimper? 
Hear me ! — But, O bitter woe ! 


Agua mis ojos, viento mis fufpiros. 


She muft not weep or figh from whom 
thou flieft. 




If Ihe muil give thee for thy fpeedier 

flight, 
Water her eyes, and wind the fobs (he 


Flerida. 


figheth. 

Flerida. 


Senora, en vano te quejas ; 
Que fordo el ingrato Ulifes, 
Defbocado bruto, corre 


Vainly, lady, thou lamenteft. 
Since the deaf ingrate Ulyfles 
Flies with rudder and with fail 


A vela y remo el efquife. 


On his Ihip as on a fwift Heed. 


Libia. 


Libia. 


Ya, perdiendofe de villa. 


Almoft loft to fight, 'tis now 


Un atomo es invifible. 


To the fmalleft atom dwindled. 


AJirea. 
Y ya entre el agua y las nubes 


Aftrea. 
And betwixt the wave and cloud 


Un pajaro apenas finge. 
Circe. 


Like a tiny fea-bird wingeth. 
Circe. 


Ya eftas, Arfidas, vengado. 


Arfidas, thou art avenged ; 


Pero mal dije, mal dije ; 


But my words are falfe and idle, — 



38 



EL MAYOR ENCANTO AMOR. 



Que nunca fe venga un noble 
En mirar un infelice. 
Si lo eres, efe acero 
En mi roja fangre tiiie ; 
Que no es venganza, piedad 
Si, dark la muerte a un trifle. 

Y fea antes que trafpuello 
Efe nebli, que defcribe 
Las ondas, efe delfin. 

Que el campo del aire mide, 
Efe caballo, que corre, 
Efe efcollo, que fe rige, 
Efe penafco, que nada, 
Se efconda, y no fe divife ; 
Porque, perdido de vifta, 
Tardara tu acero infigne, 

Y no fera menefter 

Mas muerte, que no feguirle. 

j Efcucha ! Mas j ay trifle ! 

No llore quien te pierde, ni fufpire, 

Pues te dan, para hacer mejor camino, 

Agua mis ojos, viento mis fufpiros. — 

I Mas que me quejo a los cielos ? 

I No foy la magica Circe ? 

I No puedo tomar venganza 

En quien me ofende y me rinde ? 

Alterados eflos mares 

A fer pedazos afpiren 

De los cielos ; que ii lleva, 

Porque de encantos fe libre, 

El ramillete de Juno, 

Que trajo del cielo Iris, 

No de tormentas del mar 

Le libraran fus matices. 

Llamas las ondas arrojen, 

Fuego las aguas efpiren. 

\Sale fuego del agua. 
Arda el azul pavimento, 

Y fus campaiias turquies 



True hearts ne'er can vengeance find 
In the fight of one afHided. 
If thou art fo, take this fword. 
And with my red heart's blood tinge it, 
Since to kill a wretch like me 
Is not vengeance, but true pity : 
And do this, or ere, fafl fading. 
Yon fleet falcon, that fwift fwimmeth 
Ocean's waves, yon white-wing'd dol- 
phin, 
'Mid the fields of air uplifted. 
Yonder fea-fleed gently flowing. 
Yonder rudder'd rock that drifteth. 
Yonder loofen'd cliff that floateth, 
Undefcried is wholly hidden ; 
For when it is lofl to fight. 
Then too late will fall thy fwift fleel. 
Since no other death I'll need ; 
Then the thought I can't go with him. 
Hear me ! But, O bitter woe ! 
She mufl not weep or figh from whom 

thou fliefl. 
If fhe mufl give thee for thy fpeedier flight. 
Water her eyes, and wind the fobs fhe 

figheth. 
But why wail thus to the fkies. 
Am I not the forcerefs Circe ? 
Cannot I take vengeance on 
Him who wrongs me ? who afflids me ? 
Let the roufed-up feas afpire. 
As it were, to be the fplinters 
Of the broken heavens : and though 
He that charm againft bewitchments 
Bears — the beauteous flowers of Juno, 
Which from heaven were brought by 

Iris, — 
From the tempefls of the fea 
Him fhall not their tints deliver ; 
Flame, be darted from the billows. 



LOVE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 139 


Miefes de rayos parezcan. 


Fire, from out the waves be ipirted ; 


Que canas de fuego vibren. 


\_Fire rifes from the water. 


A ver, fi hay deidad, que tanta 


Let the azure pavement burn, 


Tormenta le facilite. 


And its plains of turquoife gliften, 




Like a harveft field of lightning. 




Vibrating innumerous fire-flems. 




To find out if any goddefs 




Can fo great a Ilorm extinguifh. 


Serenafe el mar,yfale por el, en un carro 


The fea grows ferene, and upon it Ga- 


triunfnl tirado de dos delfines, Ga- 


latea is feen advancing in a trium- 


latea, y al rededor muchos Tritones 


phal car drawn by two dolphins ^ and 


y Sirenas con infirumentos. 


furrounded by many Tritons and 




Sirens bearing mufical injiruments. 


Galatea, 


Galatea, ! 


Si habra, y quien, fereno el mar. 


There is one, who fmooths the fea j 


Manfo, quieto y apacible, 


To a peaceful path of filver 


Le de pafo en fus esferas. 


For his paflage through its fpheres. 


Circe. 


Circe. 


I Quien eres tu, que falifte 


Who art thou that hath arifen 


De efas humidas alcobas 


From the deep fea's damp recelTes, 


En triunfal carro fublime. 


In triumphal chariot driven, 


A ferenar de mi enojo 


To appeafe the unappeafed 


Las iras defapacibles ? 


Anger of the wrath I've kindled ? 


Galatea. 


Galatea. 


Yo, que en efte hermofo carro. 


I, who in this beauteous car. 


A quien tiran dos delfines. 


Which two dolphins move fo lightly. 


De Sirenas y Tritones 


Come accompanied and circled 


Tan acompanada vine. 


By the Tritons and the Sirens, 


Galatea foy, de Doris 


Galatea am, the daughter 


Hija, y de Nereo, invencible 


Of fair Doris, and the mighty 


Dios marino, y la que amante 


Sea-god Nereus, and the loved once 


De Acis, joven infelice,, 


Of young Acis, haplefs ftripling, 


Murio a los barbaros zelos 


Vidim of the jealous fury 


De Polifemo, terrible 


Of wild Polyphemus, grimmeft 


Monllruo, que el talamo duke 


Of all monilers, who the fweet bed 


De nueftras bodas felices 


Of the happy vows we plighted 


Cubrio de un peiiafco, que hoy 


Cover'd with a rock, which ever ; 


Tumulo es, que nos aflige : 


Like a dark tomb o'er us rifes. 



HO EL MJTOR ENCANTO AMOR, 


Cuya piramide, cuanta 


Prefs'd beneath whofe pyramid 


Sangre de los dos exprime. 


All the blood that from us trickles, — 


Crillal es, que defatado 


So to v^eep our tragic end — 


Nueftro fin llorando dice. 


Turns to cryftal murmuring ripples. 


Defte ruftico jay an 


'Gainft this ruftic giant rude 


Vengada me dejo Ulifes, 


Vengeance gave to me Ulyfles, 


A cuya caufa mi voz 


On account of which my voice 


Al amparo fuyo afifte ; 


In his caufe has been uplifted, 


Y pidiendo a las deidades 


A iking of the deities 


De Neptuno y de Anfitrite, 


Neptune and fair Amphitrite, 


Que ferenafen los mares. 


That they would make fmooth the feas, 


Y que fus claros viriles 


And that they, tranllucent mirrors. 


Efpejos fuefen del fol. 


Should outfpread them for the fun. 


Mientras los Griegos los pifen. 


While the Greek fhip fail'd amidft them. 


Como a Ninfa de fus ondas. 


I, as being a fea-nymph born. 


Que difcurra me permiten 


Am to run their realm permitted. 


El mar, apagando cuanto 


In the fea the fire appeafing. 


Fuego en el introdujifte ; 


Which your vengeful anger flings here ; 


Y afi ondas de plata y vidrio 


And my fwift car thus o'er-rideth, 


Veloz mi carro defcribe. 


Sparkling waves of glafs and filver. 


Haciendo a fu hermofa efpuma. 


Making with its beauteous foam 


Que a las rodadas sutiles. 


'Neath its wheels the waves to gliften. 


O como plata fe entorchen. 


Now in curling wreaths of glafs. 


O como vidrio fe ricen. 


Now in filvery twine entwifted. 


Circe. 


Circe, 


Si deidad eres del mar, 


If thou'rt of the fea a goddefs. 


Cuando en el mis fuerzas quites. 


Thou may'ft of my might deprive me 


No en la tierra ; y li no puedo 


There, but not on land ; if vengeance 


Vengarme en quien huye libre. 


I can't have on him who flies me. 


En mi podre. Eftos palacios. 


On myfelf I can. This palace. 


Que magico el arte finge. 


Which by magic art I builded. 


Defvanecidos en polvo, 


Let it vanifli into dull. 


Sola una voz los derribe. 


Let a Angle word, to fliivers 


Su hermofa fabrica caiga 


Shake this beauteous fabric down. 


Defhecha, rota y humilde ; 


Ruin'd, broken, rent, made little. 


Sean paramo de nieve 


O'er its mountains and its gardens 


Sus montes y fus jardines. 


Let the dreary fnow be drifted. 


Un Mongibelo fuceda 


And where now it Hands in beauty. 


En fu lugar, que vomite 


Be a wild volcano kindled. 



LOFE THE GREATEST ENCHANTMENT. 



141 



Fuego, que a la luna abrafe, 
Entre humc, que al fol eclipfe. 
[Hiindeje el palacio de Circe, y 
aparece un volcariy arrojando 
llamas. 

Aftrea. 
J Que confufion tan notable 1 

Libia. 
\ O que afombro tan terrible ! 

Flerida. 
Huyamos, Libia! {Vafe. 

Libia. 

Huye, Aftrea! {Vafe. 

AJirea. 
I Donde eftar podemos libres ? 

\Vafe. 

Circe. 
Cuantos efpiritus tuve 
Prefos, fujetos y humildes, 
Inficionando los aires, 
Huyan a fu centre horrible. 
y yo, pues de mis encantos 
h faber que es mayor vine 
El amor, pues el amor, 
A quien no rindieron, rinde, 
Muera tambien, y fuceda 
A mi fin la noche trifte. \HundeJe. 

Galatea. 
Pues feguro el mar por donde 
Venturofo cor re Ulifes, 
Tormentas ve de la tierra. 
El mar con fieftas publique 
Su vencimiento, y haciendo 
Regocijos y feftines, 
Sus Tritones y Sirenas 
Lazos formen apacibles ; 
Pues fue el agua tan dichofa. 
En efta noche felice. 



Belching fire, the pale moon burning, 
And with fmoke the fea eclipfing. 
\The palace of Circe Jinks into the 
earth, and a volcano rifes in its 
place, darting out flames. 
Aftrea. 
O confufion fo unequall'd ! 

Libia. 

O the horror fo terrific ! 

Flerida. 

Libia, fly ! \Exit. 

Libia. 

Oh! fly, Aftrea! \_Exit. 

Aftrea. 

Where for fafety ? fay, oh ! whither ? 

\^Exit. 
Circe. 
All the fpirits that I held 
Captive, fubjeft to myfway,and willing. 
Flying on the poifon'd air. 
Seek the horrid homes that hide them. 
And fince I of my enchantments 
Have now come to know the chief is 
Love, fince love it was that conquer'd 
Him, whom all the reft left vidlor. 
Let me alfo die, and let 
Mournful night's dark gloom engird me. 
\_She ftnks down. 
Galatea. 
Since the fea, upon whofe breaft 
Flies the fortunate Ulyfl'es, 
Views unmoved the ftorms of land. 
Let it now in joy and mirth here 
Publifli to the world his triumph. 
And its Tritons and its Sirens, 
Making fetes and glad rejoicings. 
Dance in many mazes mingled ; 
And fince on this happy night 
Lias the water been permitted 



142 



EL MAYOR ENCJNTO AMOR, 



Que merecio fer teatro 
De foles, a quien humilde 
El Poeta, entre otras honras, 
Perdon de las faltas pide. 

\Hicuron un bailete Tritones 
y Sirenas, 



The proud theatre to be 
Of two funs, the Poet wifhes 
Humbly, 'mid his other honours. 
For his faults to afk forgivenefs. 

\The fcene clofes with a Ballet of 
Tritons and Sirens. 




THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 



AN AUTO. 



FROM THE SPANISH OF CALDERON. 



INTRODUCTION. 




HE Sorceries of Sin is the only attempt that has ever been 
made in Englifh to prefent even one of Calderon's Autos 
in its integrity. Indeed, with the exception of the fcenes 
introduced into Dean Trench's analyfis of The Great 
Theatre of the Worlds not a fmgle Hne of thefe remarkable 
dramas has ever previoufly been prefented in Englifh verfe. Writers 
in Reviews and Magazines have occafionally drawn attention to a few of 
the fecular dramas of Calderon ; but the Jutos^ the moft wonderful of all 
his produdions, and the only ones (with but two exceptions) which the 
great poet himfelf thought worthy of his revifion,* have been pafled over, 
I may fay, in almoft utter filence.f One of them has been admirably ana- 



* Vera TafTis mentions that Calderon correded the proofs of the two dramas which 
he allowed to be printed in the forty-fixth volume of the Comedias de Varios Autores. 
A fmall number out of one hundred and twenty. The Autos which he prepared for 
the prefs are contained in the volume of 1690 alluded to in the text. 

f Even German enthufiafm, which has done io much for the Comedias of Calderon, 
has fhrunk from the difficult taflc of dealing with the Autos. I know of but two 
writers who have given a tranflation of any of them. The firft is J. F. von EichendorfF, 
who publilhed eleven of them in his Geiftliche Schauffiele <von Don Pedro Calderon 
de la Barca^ Stuttgart, 184.6-53. The other is Ludwig Braunfels, who publifhed two 
little volumes of tranflations from Lope de Vega, Tirfo de Molina and Calderon, at 
Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1856. The fecond volume contains the Auto La Cena de 
Balthajar^ previoufly tranflated by EichendorfF in the original afonantes, which Braunfels 



146 THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 



lyfed in profe by Mr. Ticknor ;* another in the Rambler :t two or three 
have been meagrely and frigidly condenfed into a few lines by Southey ; % 
and Sifmondi, who condefcended only to read one of them outoffeventy 
three, has favoured us with an outline of that one, which is chara6lerized 
by his ufual want of fympathy or appreciation. This negle6i:, perhaps, 
is not to be wondered at, confidering how very flight, after all, if we take 
into account their number and variety, has been the notice which his 
fecular dramas have as yet received from Britifh writers. Though it is 
not at all improbable, that, had the fame attention, fuch as it is, been de- 
voted to the Autos^ which has been given to the Comedias^ a far greater 
amount of curiofity and interefl: would be felt towards Calderon than any 
prefentation of his merely fecular dramas has yet fucceeded in awakening. 
This opinion, exprefled in different language in the introdu61:ory remarks 
which I prefixed to The Sorceries of Sin as originally publifhed in the 
Atlantis, § has received the ftrongefl: confirmation from an obfervation of 
Mr. Ticknor's, contained in a letter which he had the kindnefs to addrefs 
to me fhortly after the appearance of The Sorceries of Sin in the fcientific 
and literary journal to which I have alluded. Contrafting my former 
labours upon Calderon with my later, and encouraging me to proceed in 
the new path, Mr. Ticknor fays : — " With the two volumes of your 
tranflations from Calderon's plays, which you pubHfhed in 1853, 1 have 
been familiar from their firfl: appearance, and very thankful that you 
ventured on the bold undertaking. But this verfion of the Encantos 

rejefts as being unfuited to the genius even of the German language, Los Encantos de 
la Culpa is tranflated by Eichendorff under the title Der Siinde Zauberei, in the fecond 
volume (p. 315) of his work. The German tranflations of the Comedias are numerous. 
I have in my own poffefTion excellent ones by Auguftus Schlegel, Schach the hiftorian, 
Gries, Malfburg, Martin, Barman, Schmid, Schumacher, and others. 

* The Di'vine Orpheus. Hiftory of Spanilh Literature, v. ii. p. 323. 

f Poifon and Antidote^ Rambler, Dec. 1855. 

\ Common Place Book, fecond feries, p. 253. 

^ No. IV. July, 1859. 



INTRODUCTION. 147 



de la Culpa^ with its afonantes^ is much more interefting as a work of art, 
and more important. Allow me, then, to exprefs the hope that you will 
go on and tranflate more of the Autos. Nothing can, I think, give a 
clearer idea of what is moft chara6i:eriftic in Spanifh literature, or give 
foreigners a more juft idea of its peculiar power." This important 
teftimony to the attracSlivenefs of the Autos in themfelves, and to a cer- 
tain fuccefs which has attended my attempt to transfer one of them, with 
its peculiar and varied verfiiication, into Enghfh, I confefs I print here 
with great, and, I think, not unjuftifiable pride. Though the time and 
labour neceflary to complete the long dramas contained in this volume 
have not left me leifure to include another Auto in this colle61:ion, I 
truft that what is here prefented, by its ftricSl and rigid adherence to 
thofe principles of tranflation which in the fmaller piece have obtained 
the approval of fo eminent an authority, will fhow how highly I value it, 
and how earneftly I have again ftruggled to deferve it. 

The precife time at which the firft volume of the Autos was pubHfhed 
appears to be a matter of fome uncertainty. But two colledled editions 
have been made in Spain, one in 1717, in fix volumes, 4to., the other in 
1759-60, alfo in 4to. On the title-pages of both editions they are called 
Ohras PoJIhumas, and are reprefented as being then firft publifhed. This 
is true no doubt of the greater number of them, the manufcripts of all 
having been preferved in the archives of the corporation of Madrid, 
whofe property, for the purpofes of the Corpus Chrifti feftivities, they 
were. This property the municipality parted with on the 31ft of May, 
1 717, to Don Pedro de Pando y Mier, for the fum of fixteen thoufand 
reals, and it was by him that the firft colle6tion was made.* Although 
the preface which Calderon prepared himfelf for the firft volume of the 

* The Autos have never been republifhed out of Spain. The edition of Keil contains 
only the vague allufion of Vera Taflis as to their number. In Spain itfelf they have 
not yet been included in the valuable Biblioteca de Autores Efpanoles (till in courfe of 
publication, though promifed by Senor Hartzenbufch in the preface to his edition of 
the Comedias, (p. xx.) and more recently by Don Jufto de Sancha in the notice prefixed 



148 THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 

Autos is given in the two editions above mentioned, the volume itfelf is 
not alluded to, and feems to be unknown in Spain, if I may judge from 
the filence obferved towards it in one of the lateft publifhed volumes of 
the Biblioteca de Autores Efpanoles^^ where the ufual ftatement is made 
of the Autos being firji publijQied in 1 7 1 7 . Having picked up a few years 
ago, on a Dublin book-ftall, a volume of the Autos publifhed in i690,t I 
took the liberty, in my paper in the Atlantis, of calling the attention of 
Mr. Ticknor to the fait, he having ftated, in his Hiftory of Spanifh 
Literature (v. ii. p. 319, note 25), that " the Autos ^ being the property 
of the city of Madrid, and annually reprefented, were not permitted to 
be printed for a long time (Lara Prologo). They were firft publifhed 
in 1 717, in 6 volumes, 4to., and they fill the fame number of volumes 
in the edition of 1759-60, 4to." This corre6tion, if I may call it fo, I 
made with very great diffidence and deference, and I was relieved beyond 
meafure at finding Mr. Ticknor not only received my obfervations with 
indulgence, but favoured me with the following mofl interefling and 
valuable information upon the fubje6t : — 

" What you fay of the confufion that you find in my notice of the 
firfl publication of the Autos is partly true. When I wrote my Hiflory 
of Spanifh Literature, I had not feen the twelve Autos publifhed in 1690 
from a MS. that feems to have been prepared by Calderon as early as 

to his Romancero y Cancionero Sagrados, Madrid, 1855, p. vi. If well edited, this volume 
would form one of the moft interefting of the feries. The date "31ft of May, 1717," in 
the text, I have taken from the work referred to in the next note. Mr. Ticknor, in his 
letter, gives the date, 31/? of March, 1716. The name of the affignee of the copyright 
in that work is given Prado (inftead of Pando) y Mier. The correft name is fupplied in 
Mr. Ticknor's letter, and is found at the bottom of the fly-leaf of each volume of the 
edition of 1759-60, containing the Fee de erratas. 

* Dramaticos Pojieriores a Lope de Vega, t. i. Note to Chronological Catalogue of 
Dramatic Authors from Calderon to Canizares, p. xxxvii. 

f Autos Sacrament ales Alegoricos y Hijioriales. De die ados alPatriarca San Juan de 
Dios, compuefos por Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca, &c. En Madrid: por Juan 
Garcia Infanzon, ano 1690. 



INTRODUCTION^ 149 

1676 j but a few years ago, at Florence, I picked up a copy, together 
with a copy of the Comedias publifhed by Vera Taffis in nine volumes 
between 1683 and 1694. From thefe fources and from odd volumes of 
the Comedias de Diferentes Jutores^ going back to 1633, and the volumes 
publifhed by Calderon's brother Jofeph, I intend to give as good an 
account as I can of the firft editions, whether fpurious or genuine, of all 
Calderon's dramas, religious and fecular, in the third American edition 
of my Hiftory, now in the prefs. Of courfe, I fhall ufe in it what 
Hartzenbufch has fo well done. 

" But there ftill remains fome obfcurity about the matter When 

Calderon, in July, 1680, gave the Duke de Veraguas the lift of his dramas, 
which was publifhed in the Ohelifco of Lara in 1683, the twelve Autos 
are marked as imprefos. But I know of no edition of them earlier than 
that of 1690, where they all appear, but in a different order from the one 
to which they ftand in the lift, which is, after all, the true foundation for 
all difcuffions about Calderon's dramas. It is plain, that, when he col- 
le61:ed them for publication, he had the purpofe of making more than 
one volume. The prefatory matter ftiows this, as you have well 
obferved. But I know of nothing of the fort, except the volume of 
1690, until the 31ft of March, 1716, when the City of Madrid — Como 
legataria del Do61:or D. Pedro Calderon de la Barca — gave or fold the 
right of printing them all to Pedro de Pando y Mier, after which every- 
thing is plain. Now can you give me any indication of the publication 
of any of Calderon's Autos earlier than the laft date, except that of the 
twelve in 1690 ? If you can you will add another obligation to the 
many I owe you already. 

" My only conje6ture in relation to the matter is, that the twelve 
Autos of 1690 were printed in 1676; but that the prefatory matter in 
the firft four leaves was not printed until the volume was publijhed in 
1690, where the title-page fhows that no fubfequent volume was 
likely to be added ; the city of Madrid having then the right of property 
in them, which it did not part with until nineteen years later. But I 



150 7'HE SORCERIES OF SIN. 

do not much rely on this. Calderon was very loofe in his ftatements 
about his dramas and his unwilHngnefs to have them pubKfhed." 

The information afked for by Mr. Ticknor, in the above valuable 
bibliographical note, it is fcarcely necelFary to fay I v^^as unable to 
fupply ; and to the few obfervations I ventured to make upon the fub- 
je6i:, Mr. Ticknor was good enough to refer in a fubfequent letter which 
he favoured me with, a pafTage from which I here fubjoin, as all that 
is likely to be ever known about the matter. 

" The queftion of the firft publication of the Autos is, as you fay, a 
puzzling one, and I think will never be fettled to abfolute certainty. I 
rely little on Lara's Obelifco Funebre, becaufe there are certainly feveral 
grofs miftakes in it. Calderon' s ftatements, too, I have found are not 
always to be trufted, and as for Tafias, aprobaciones &c., I have many 
times had as much trouble with them in other cafes as in this. My 
general impreffion, therefore, is that the Autos of 1690 were the firft 
pubHftied, and that nothing was done earlier except to prepare them for 
the prefs, and get the needful permifiions to print them, beginning this 
work in 1676." 

An allufion has been made in one of the notes to the Catalogo Crono- 
log'icoy Alfahetlco by Don Ramon de Mefonero Romanos (prefixed to his 
Dramaticos Pojier'ures a Lope de Vega^ t. i. pp. xxxvii. to liii.) of dramas 
and dramatifts in Spain from 1635 to 1740. The number of Calderon's 
Comed'ias fet down in this lift is 126, which includes thofe dramas in 
which Calderon was afiifted by other poets, as well as thofe of which no 
copies are now known to exift ; among others the Don ^ixote de la 
Mancha^ the lofs of which is fo much to be regretted. The names of 
84 Autos are given, being eleven more than the number contained in the 
fix quarto volumes of 1717 or 1759-60, which I have mentioned as 
being but 73. There is certainly fome confufion in this lift, which con- 
tains the names of fourteen Autos not to be found in the fix quartos 
juft alluded to, omits two which thofe volumes contain, and alters the 



INTRODUCTION. 151 

names of two others, if, indeed, thefe laft are not different Jutos 
altogether. 

Among the new Jutos is one called Devocion de la Cruz., which muft 
not be confounded with the terrible tragedy of that name which Bou- 
terwek fo ftrangely miftook for an Juto^ as mentioned in the introduction 
to my tranflation of The Devotion of the Crofs in this volume. Another 
is called Crwz en la Sepultura^ the very name under which The Devotion 
of the Crofs was firft publifhed in the edition of Huefca, 1633, as fully 
defcribed in the fame introduction. The expectation of new treafure, 
however, which this lift awakens adds greatly to the anxiety which 
Spanifh fcholars feel for the long-promifed repubHcation of them in the 
Library of Spanijh Authors. 

It only remains for me to add that my reafon for feleCting Los En- 
cantos de la Culpa in preference to others of at leaft equal, if not fuperior, 
brilliancy, was its connection with El Mayor Encanto Amor^ and the 
intereft I felt, and which I am fure others will feel, at tracing the in- 
genuity and marvellous freftinefs with which Calderon takes up the 
fame theme, which one would think he had exhaufted in the longer 
drama, and reprefenting it anew in a more wonderful and original man- 
ner than at firft. The remarks of Dean Trench on this fubjeCt, in his 
admirable eflay on the genius of Calderon, are fo appofite, that I make 
no fcruple of transferring them here : — 

" The manner in which Calderon ufes the Greek Mythology is ex- 
ceedingly interefting. He was gifted with an eye fmgularly open for 
the true religious element, which, however overlaid and debafed, is yet to 
be detected in all inferior forms of religion. Thefe rehgions were to 
him the veftibules through which the nations had been guided till they 
reached the temple of the abfolute religion, where God is worfliipped in 
Chrift. The reaching out and feeling after an unknown truth, of 
which he deteCted fomething in the fun-worftiip of the Peruvians,* he 

* See his Daybreak in Copacabana. 



152 THE SORCERIES OF S I N. ' 

recognized far more diftincStly in the more human, and therefore more 
divine, mythology and reHgion of ancient Greece. It may be that the 
genuine Caftilian aHenation from the Jew, which was not wanting in 
him, may in part have been at work when he extols, as he often loves to 
do, the fuperior readinefs of the Gentile world, as contrafted with the 
Jewifh church, to receive the proffered falvation, its greater receptivity 
of the truth. But whether this may have had any ihare in the matter 
or not, it is a theme to which he is conftantly in thefe Autos recurring, 
and which he loves under the moft various afpe61:s to prefent. And 
generally he took a manifeft delight in finding or making a deeper 
meaning for the legends and tales of the claffical world, feeing in them 
the fymbols and unconfcious prophecies of Chriftian truth. He had no 
mifgivings, therefore, but that thefe would yield themfelves freely to be 
moulded by his hands. He felt that in employing them he would not 
be drawing down the facred into the region of the profane ; but elevating 
that which had been profaned into its own proper region and place. 
Thefe legends of heathen antiquity fupply the allegorical fubftratum for 
feveral of his Autos. Now it is The True God Pan^ or Perfeus refcuing 
Andromeda, or Thefeus deftroying the Labyrinth, or UlyfTes defying the 
Enchantments of Circe, or the exquifite mythus of Cupid and Pfyche. 
Each in turn fupphes him with fome new poetical afpe6t under which to 
contemplate the very higheft truth of all." * 

* Life''s a Dream : The Great Theatre of the World. From the Spanilh of Calderon. 
With an Effay on his Life and Genius. By Richard Chenevix Trench. London, 
1856, p. 96. 



PERSONS REPRESENTED. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


La Lascivia.* 


Voluptuousness. * 


La Lisonja. 


Flattery. 


El Entendimiento. 


The Understanding. 


La Penitencia. 


Penance. 


El Olfato. 


The Smell. 


El OiDO. 


The Hearing. 


El Tacto. 


The Touch. 


El Gusto. 


The Taste. 


La Vista. 


The Sight. 


Muficos. 


Muficians. 


Acompanamiento. 


Chorus, &c. 


* This charadler, though taking a part in the Auto^ is not included in the lift of Perfoms in the 


edition of 1759-60, from which 1 print. 




AUTO SACRAMENTAL ALEGORICO, 
INTITULADO 

LOS ENCANTOS DE LA CULPA. 




oy 



hombre te amenaza 



Suena un Clarin, y fe defcubre una Nave, y en ella el Hombre 
el Entendimiento, y los Cinco Sentidos. 

El Entendimiento. 
,N la anchurofa Plaza 
Del mar del Mundo, 
Gran tormenta. 

El Oido, 
Yo he fido 

De tus cinco fentidos el Oido, 
y affi el primero fiento 
Bramar las ondas, y gemir el viento. 

La Vifia. 
Yo, que he fido la Villa, 
Que al Sol los rayos perfpicaz conquillaj 
Defde lexos divifo 
Uno, y otro uracan, a cuyo vifo 
En efla criftalina 
Campaiia te previene fatal ruina. 

El Taao. 
El Tafto foy, a horrores te provoco, 
Pues ya cercanos los peligros toco. 




THE SACRAMENTAL ALLEGORICAL AUTO, 
ENTITLED 

THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 




A Trumpet founds, and a Ship is dif covered at fea. In it are the 
Man, the Understanding, and the Five Senses. 

The JJnderJianding, 
,PON the boundlefs plain of the world's wide fea, 
O Man ! this day doth darkly threaten thee 
A mighty tempeft. 

The Hearing. 
I who am the Hearing 

'Mong thy live Senfes call'd, perceive the nearing 
Of the impending florin; to me is known 
Firft when the waves grow hoarfe and winds begin to groan. 

The Sight. 
I who am call'd the Sight — 
Swift vidlor of the great Sun's golden light, — 
With power to look between 
Each whirlwind wild that breaks the blue ferene, 
Forefeeing, can behold the coming woe 
That on this cryftal plain this day thou'rt doom'd to know. 

The Touch. 
The Touch am I, harrowing thy foul fo much. 
That dangers doling round thee feem to touch. 



156 LOS ENCJNTOS DE LA CULPA. 

El Olfato. 
El Olfato te dice, que fe crea 
El humedo vapor de la marea. 

El Gufio. 
Yo en trance tan injuilo. 
Con fer el Guilo, efhoy aqui fin gufto. 

El Oido, 
Gran tormenta corremos. 

El Entendimiento. 
En el Mar de la vida nos perdemos. 

El Taao. 
Larga aquella mayor. 

El Olfato. 



A la Triza. 



Iza el Trinquete. 
El Gujio. 



El Oido. 

A la Eicolta. * 

La Vijla. 

Al Chafaldete. 
El Entendimiento. 
En alterados hielos 
Corre tormenta el hombre. 
Todos. 

PiedaJ, Cielos ! 
El Ho?nbre. 
En el Texto Sagrado, 
Quantas veces las aguas fe han nombrado, 
Tantos do6los Varones 
Las fuelen traducir tribulaciones. 
Con que la humana vida 
Navega zozobrada, y fumergida. 
El Hombre foy, a aftucias inclinado, 
Y por ferlo, oy Ulifes me ha nombrado. 
Que en Griego decir quiere 
Cautelofo : y affi, quien oy quifiere 



Should obvioufly be Efcota. 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 157 

The Smell. 
Smell, too, proclaims how near doth ruin glide. 
Even by the humid vapours of the tide. 

The Tafie. 
For fuch a tumult of the fea and fky 
No tafte I feel, though Tafte itfelf am I. 

The Hearing. 
We run before the wind. 

The Vnderjlanding. 
Storm-toft, 
Upon the fea of life our bark is loft. 

The Touch, 
Loofen the mainlheet 1 

i:he Smell. 

Hoift the forefail, ho ! 
The Tajle. 
To the cable ! 

The Hearing. 
To the tack-rope ! 
T:he Sight. 

Let the clew-lines go ! 
The Underjianding. 
Over the waves by mighty tempefts driven, 
Man ftruggles on. 

All. 
Have pity, gracious Heaven ! 
The Man. 
In the facred text do we 

Find frequent mention of the waves of the fea. 
Which learned doftors all tranflate 
The tribulations of this mortal ftate. 
Through which in ftormy ftrife 
Struggles fubmerged and toft the bark of human life. 
I then am Man, to craft and cunning prone. 
And therefore by Ulylles' name am known. 
As if a Grecian fynonym it were 
For cautious fenfe ; therefore if any here 
Wilh to track well the ftraits my fate goes through. 
Let him UlyfTes' ftory keep in view : 



58 LOS ENCANTOS DE LA CULPA. 

Correr las lineas de la fuerte mia, 
De Ulifes figa en mi la Alegoria : 

Y los que en una parte 

Me llamaron viador, viendo mi arte, 

Y en otra navegante, que el camino 
Del Mar difcurro fiempre peregrine, 
Dando ocafion a que ningun viviente 
Se admire de peligro tan urgente : 

Y affi nadie fe efpante. 

Que Ulifes peregrine, y navegante. 
Con inquietud violenta, 
Corra tanta tormenta, 
. Confufos, y perdidos 

En mis tribulaciones mis fentidos. 

El Oido, 
Solo fe efcuchan en la felva fria 
Rafagas, que nos dan por travesia. 

La Vifta. 
Solo fe ven en eflbs orizontes 
Montes, que fe delhacen fobre montes. 

El Taao. 
Solo fe tocan ondas, con quien fube 
El mar, que nace mar, a morir nube. 

El Olfato. 
Uno fon ya los dos azules velos. 

El Gup, 
Que nos vamos a pique. 
Todos. 

Piedad, Cielos ! 
El Entendimiento. 
Si los llamais, ferenidades crea 
Vueftro temor cobarde, y que no fea 
Efle Baxel, que en pielagos fe mueve, 
Sepulcro de criftal, tumba de nieve. 
Que el Cielo, a humildes voces fiempre abierto, 
Al naufragio Piloto es feliz Puerto. 

El Gup. 
Acordemonos del, aora que eftamos 
En riefgo los que el Mundo navegamos. 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 159 

Then thofe who call me at one part 

Of my courfe a wayfarer, feeing my art, 

A mariner at another, day by day 

Pilgrim-like treading over the fea's fait way. 

Will wonder not at th' extremity 

Of danger, which none living 'fcaped but he ; 

And thus without a fear, 

A pilgrim and a voyager. 

You may behold Ulyfles braving 

The fea's unreft, the tempell's raving, — 

See him in me confufed and loft. 

And by my Senfes girded like a hoft. 



The Hearing. 
The wild gufts on this frozen foreftry 
Of mafts lide-ftriking lift alone to thee. 

The Sight, 
Nought can be feen on the horizon wild. 
But mountains upon yielding mountains piled. 

The Touch. 
Nought can be touch'd but waves, if waves they be 
Which die in the air a cloud, though born a fea. 

The Smell. 
Commingled are their veil's deep azure dyes. 

The Tafte. 
We ft r ike ! we fink ! 

All. 

Have pity, O ye ikies ! 
The Underfianding. 
If upon Heaven you call, your prayers, though weak, 
Will of themfelves create the calm we feek. 
Bringing this bark, which through the waves doth -go, 
A cryftal fepulchre, a tomb of fnow. 
Safe to that holy haven it lays bare 
To fliipwreck'd pilot's eyes — fo ftrong is humble prayer. 

The Tafte. 
Oh ! may it grant it foon, for here are we 
Toft in extremeft rifk upon the world's wide fea. 



6o LOS ENCJNTOS DE LA CULPA. 

El Entendimiento. 
Dadle voces en tales defconfuelos, 
Pues el liempre refponde. 
Todos. 

Piedad, Cielos ! 
El Oido. 
Ya efcucho, que fe llena 
De paz la vaga habitacion ferena. 
El Gup. 

Y el Mar tranquilo, ya con ira fuma 
No rine, fino juega con la efpuma. 

El Entendimiento. 
Todo el ayre es cambiantes, y reflexos. 

La Vifia. 
Todo es ferenidad, y ya no lexos. 
Antes que todos miro 
Cumbres, que tocan al azul Zafiro, 
Del Mar burlando la fanuda guerra. 

El Entendimiento. 
Zelages fe defcubren : tierra, tierra. 

El H ombre. 
Prudente Entendimiento, 
Piloto, que al govierno eftas atento 
De aquefta humana Nave, 
Que nadar, y bolar a un tiempo fabe, 
Siendo en manfiones de atomos de efpumas. 
Sin efcamas Delfin, Cifne fin plumas, 
P6n la Proa en aquella 
Montana, en quien la mas luciente Eftrella 
Peligra, pues fu cumbre 
Es en donde le roba al Sol la lumbre : 

Y affi fus puertas inconftantes cierra 
A efte humano Baxel. 

Todos. 
A tierra, a tierra. 

Defembarcan, y defaparece la Nave. 

El Hombre. 
Humanos fentidos mios. 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 



The Underftanding. 
In fuch afflidion let its vault be riven 
Still with your cries, 'twill anfwer. 
All. 

Save us. Heaven. 
The Hearing 
Already calm comes on, the wild winds ceafe. 
And o'er our heaving home glides the foft breath of peace. 

The Tajie. 
The fea grows tranquil — fmoothly lilver'd o'er. 
It plays with the foam with which it fought before. 

The Underftanding. 
Bright grows the air with many a changeful hue. 

The Sight. 
All grows ferene, and lo! not far I view — 
I firft of all — the bare 

Peaks of tall hills, which touch the azure air. 
Now mocking the far wave- war on the ftrand. 

The Underftanding. 
Now the clouds part — it is the land ! the land ! 

The Man. 
O prudent pilot Underftanding ! 
Thou who haft been fo long commanding 
This bark of human life, this boat. 
That at the felf-fame time can fly or float. 
Being upon the foam-flakes it refts on, 
A fcalelefs dolphin, and a plumelefs fwan. 
Beneath yon mountain turn its prow. 
Beneath yon peak which on its brow 
Wears a ftar of brighteft ray — 

That point whofe light is filch'd even from the God of Day — 
There where it feems to ftretch a curved hand 
To clafp this human bark. 

All. 
To land ! to land ! 

\^All dif embark and the vejfel dif appears. 

The Man. 
Human Senfes mine, my vaflals. 



l62 



LOS ENCJNTOS DE LA CULPA. 



Vaffallos, que componeis 
La Republica del Hombre, 
Que mundo pequeiio es. 
Generofo Entendimiento, 
Piloto de tS^Q Baxel, 
Que fobre el campo del mar 
Monftruo fe alimenta, pues 
Quanto bate el viento es ave, 
Quanto bana el agua es pez. 
Compaiieros de mi vida, 
Dexad el mar, no porque 
Nuellra peregrinacion 
En la tierra, que aora veis, 
Aya de ceffar, fupuefto 
Que fiempre tengo de fer 
Yo Peregrino del Mar, 

Y de la Tierra tambien : 
Dexad iiada efla Nave 
A la difcrecion cruel 

De un embate, y otro embate, 

De un bayben, y otro bayben. 

Seguramente amarrada 

Con las Ancoras efte. 

Que de quien Piloto ha lido 

El Entendimiento, aunque 

Aora le dexe, quiza 

Le avre menefter defpues : 

Y entremos a examinar 
Eftos montes, que han de fer 
Puerto de nueftra fortuna. 



Who together all compofe* 
Man's Republic, he a little 
World himfelf, as all do know. 
Generous Underilanding, thou ^ 
Pilot of this myftic boat, 
Changeful monfter, pafturing well 
Over the fea-way, fwift or flow, — 
Being a bird when winds it play'd 

with. 
Being a fifli when feas wafli'd o'er. 
Ye, companions of my life. 
Leave the fea, but not therefore 
Think that our long wandering ceafes 
In the land that you behold — 
Since ftill moving onward ever 
Mufl my fate be, I fuppofe — 
Over the earth to move a pilgrim — 
Over the fea like wife to go : — 
Leave this bark awhile entrufled 
To the cruel care and cold 
Of waves dafliing wildly together. 
Of foam writhing in hoftile foam, 
But let anchors firm and ftrong 
Safely flill the vefl^el hold, 
For the pilot Underilanding, 
Though he leaves her for the fliore. 
May perchance again require her : — 
Let us enter now, and go 
Curious through thefe hills which 

Heaven 
Gives our fortunes as their port. 



* The metre changes here to one which is feldom found in Calderon's fecular dramas, but 
frequently in the Autos. It is 2. Jingle afonante vowel rhyme in the laft fyllable of each alternate 
line, which, as in the more ufual double afonantes, is kept up through the entire fcene. It appears 
to be the olJeft form of the afonante, being found in the earlieft primitive ballads, fuch as that of 
Vergilios, of Count Arnaldus^ of The Infanta of France^ Sec. (See Duran's Romancero General^ Madrid, 
1849, ^' '• P- 151') Jfj^ the original of this fcene, the vowei ufed is e, which is an effedlive one in 
Spanilh ; for this, which is comparatively weak in Englifh, I have fubftituted the ftronger 0. The 
laft fcene of The Devotion of the Crofs is in this Jingle afonante vowel rhyme. 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 163 


E/ Gufto. 


The Tafte. 


Que tierra es efta? 


What land's this ? 


El TaSfo. 


The Touch, 


Nofe; 


I cannot fay. 


Mas quiera el Cielo que fea 
Tiro, para que aya en el 


Heaven but grant 'tis Tyre : if fo 
I fhall find abundant here — 


Olandas, fedas, y ropas, 
Donde regalado elle 
Mi tadlo. 


Silks, fine linen, purple robes, 
Things my touch delights to feel. 


El Olfato. 


The Smell. 


I Mejor no fuera. 


Were it not better then to hope 


Que fuera a tanta aJtivez 


That 'twill prove fome Arab plain — 


La gran India de Saba, 


Some Sabasan fcented ftiore. 


Donde huviera para oler 


Where the fweeteft odours may 


Yo, fuaviffimas Aromas? 


Glad the happier fenfe I own ? — 


El OUo. 


T^he Hearing, 


Ninguno ha pedido bien. 


No one yet has wifh'd aright : 


Pedid la India Oriental,. 


Wifh the land through which we roam 


Porque habitan fu vergel 
Dulces Aves, cuyos cantos 


May be beauteous eaftern Ind, 
In whofe vocal bowers and groves 


Sonora mufica den. 


Sweet birds' fongs may fill my ears 


Que regalen mis oidos. 


With melodious mufic tones. 


La Vifta. 
I Necios fois, pues no quereis 
Que fea Tiro, y que aya aqui 
Oro, y diamantes, en que 


The Sight. 
Idle are your wifties all. 
Since you wifh not for the zone 
Where the diamonds gliften bright 


Mi vifta halle mas reflexos. 


And the land is rich with gold : 


Que el Sol en fu roficler ? 


Sweeter to the light are gems 




Than the morn on rofes throned. 


El Gufto. 
Mai aveis defeado todos 


The Tafte. 
Badly have you all defired 


En no defear, y creer. 


In not wifhing this alone, — • 


Que fea la Tierra de Egypto 


That this land Ihould prove to be 


Effa tierra, para que 

En ella hallemos las ollas. 


Egypt's comfortable coafts. 

Where perchance we'll find the flefti-pots 


Que en ella dexo Moyfes, 
Pues no ay en el Mundo gufto 


Left by Mofes long ago. 

Since the world hath little better 


Sin comer, y fin beber. 


Than good drink and meat to {how. 



i64 LOS ENCJNTOS 


DE LA CULPA. 


El Entendimiento. 


The Under flanding. 


J Que como humanos fentidos 


Human Senfes, oh ! how each. 


Todos defeado aveis 


Each and all are prompt and prone 


Hallar cada uno el objeto. 


To defire this land may offer 


Que mas conviene a fu fer ! 


What its inftinft longs for moll ! 


I No fuera mejor que fuera 


Were it not better that it prove 


La tofca Tebayda, en quien 


The Thebais v^^ild and lone. 


La penitencia fe hallara. 


Deferts where pale Penance may 


Riyendofe del poder 


Trample down the pride of courts — 


De las Cortes populofas, 


Since there's nought more fure than 


Puefto que tan cierto es. 


this — 


Que fin pena de efta vida 


We through temporal pain alone 


No aya en la eterna placer ? 


Can exped th' eternal blifs ? 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


j Y que como Entendimiento 


Why for ever words of woe 


Has hablado tu ! { Que eftes 


Speak'Il thou, Underflanding, thus ? 


Siempre aconfejando penas 


Why for ever fhadows throw 


A mis fentidos ? i No ves. 


On the path my Senfes take? 


Que fon fentidos humanos. 


Dofl thou not their nature know. 


Y que al fin es meneller 


That they're human, and require 


Alivios, que los diviertan 


Something foothing to confole — 


De las fatigas en que 


Something fweet to eafe the pangs 


Han nacido ? 


That from birth-time they have 




known ? 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underflanding. 


I Como tu. 


Canfl thou fpeak in their defence. 


Siendo fu Senor, y Rey, 


Thou who art their King and Lord ? 


Buelves por ellos ? ^^ Ya olvidas 


Can it be thou haft forgot 


Aquel paffado bayben 


That late peril fcarcely flown. 


De la fortuna, en quien vifte 


When from out the world's dread Troy 


La Troya del Mundo arder, 


Wrapp'd in finful flames, alone 


De adonde te faque yo ? 


Thou wert refcued, and by me ? — 


I Ya te olvidas, que defpues 


Haft thou too forgot the roar 


En una tormenta vifte 


Of the wild waves, and the plight 


Tus fentidos padecer 


Of thy fenfes fuffering fore. 


Con tantas tribulaciones ? 


And that Heaven it was that drew 


I Ya no te acuerdas de que 


Them and thee from their control ? 


El Cielo te libro de elks ? 





THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 165 


El Gufto. 


The Tajie.* 


No tienes que refponder. 


Do not thou reply : to me 


Yo refpondere por ti. 


Leave the anfwer and the tone. — 


Prudentiflima vejez, 


thou cautious eld and wife. 


Que aunque fomos de una edad, 


Thou v^hofe hair is w^hite and hoar. 


Solo tu cano te ves. 


Thou alone of all our band. 


Porque te ha becho tu podrida 


Though thine age is not more old — 


Condicion encanecer : 


'Tis thy colder conftitution 


I Aora fabes tu, que el hombre. 


Doubtlefs caps thy head w^ith fnow, — 


Quando en peligro fe ve 


Haft thou yet to knou^ that Man, 


De la enfermedad prolija. 


When fome peril he beholds. 


Del enemigo cruel, 


When fome tedious ftcknefs threatens. 


De la perdida de hacienda. 


Or fome more malicious foe. 


De la efperanza del bien. 


Or the lofs of worldly wealth. 


Solo fe acuerda del Cielo, 


Or perchance the hope of gold. 


y que fe olvida defpues. 


Only then remembers Heaven, 


Que lo uno efte mejorado. 


And remembers it no more. 


U effotro alcanzado efte ? 


When his health he hath recover'd. 




Or hath reach'd the wifh'd-for goal ? 


El Entendimiento. 


The Vnderftanding. 


EiTa ingratitud le pienfo 


Be it mine, O Man, to free thee 


Quitar yo, que aquefte fue 


From ingratitude fo low, — 


Del Entendimiento oficio. 


'Tis thy Underftanding's duty. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Mi Gufto OS ha dicho bien : 


Tafte, thy words are wife and bold : — 


Sentidos, feguid al Gufto, 


Follow Tafte, my Senfes all. 


Y no arguyais mas con el. 


And with hi7n difpute no more, — 


Sino efta tierra a que avemos 


But this land to reconnoitre. 


Llegado, a reconocer 


On whofe bofom we are thrown. 


Entrad. Pues eres la Vifta, 


Enter now : ftnce thou, O Sight, 


Delante de todos ve. 


Seeft many a mile before. 


Mira ft acafo defcubres 


Look if thou, by any chance. 


Poblacion. Tu, que eres fiel. 


Canft the dwellers here behold. 


Oido, mira ft oyes 


Hearing, thou my faithful friend. 


Voces, que noticia den 


Lift if thou canft catch the tones 


De gente, 6 ganado. Tu, 


Of human voices borne afar. 


Del fuaviftimo placer 


Or the pafturing herd's deep low. 


* Toth 


e Man. 



i66 LOS ENCJNTOS DE LA CULPJ. 


Con que eiTas flores refpiran 


Thou whofe rapture rifes fvveet 


El raftro ligue con el. 


From each fcented flower that blows. 


Mira fi puedes topar 


Follow too the track with them : — 


Algun blando lecho en quien 


Some foft bed for my repofe 


Defcanfe. Y tu, Gullo, al fin. 


Thou by gentle preflure find, — 


Mira fi hallas que coiner. 


And the talk, O Talle, I'll throw 


Y todos bufcad delicias 


Upon thee of finding food. 


Para mi. 


All on feparate miflions go. 




Seeking fweet delights for me. 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underjianding. 


Aunque defee. 


By another path I hoped 


Que halles, penitencia, yendo 


Thou wouldft Penance find : purfuing 


A effo, la Culpa hallareis. 


Thaty thou'lt find Sin's fyren door. 


La Vifta. 


The Sight. 


Yo vere fi ay publacion. \_Fafe. 


I depart to look for people. \_Exit. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Y yo me quedo fin ver. 


Blind I fliay, fince Sight hath flown. 


El Oido. 


The Hearing. 


Yo efcuchare fi oygo voces, \yafe. 


I to lifl: if founds can reach me. {Exit. 


El Ho?nbre. 


The Man. 


Yo, aufente tu, nada oire. 


Since thou'rt gone, I hear no more. 


El Taao, 


The Touch. 


Yo, fi ay lecho en quien defcanfes. 


I a bed in which to reft thee. \Exit. 


El Hombre. \_Vafe. 


The Man. 


Ya yo no le he menefter. 


None I need now for repofe. 


El Olfato. 


The Smell. 


Yo, fi hallo blandos aromas. \VaJe, 


I to find delicious odours. [Exit. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Ya no tienes para que. 


Now they're naught, how fweet they 




blow. 


El Gup. 


The Tajle. 


Yo, fi hallo dulces manjares. [Vafe. 


I fweet favoury food to feek for. [Exit. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Aora no quiero comer. 


Now the thoughts of food I loathe. 


Porque mientras vais vofotros 


Wherefore, whilft you all depart 


El Mundo a reconocer. 


To explore this land unknown. 


Al pie de efte Cypres quedo 


I, in fleep, my weary body 


Echado a dormir. 


At this cyprefs' foot fliall throw. 


\_Echafe al pie de un Cypres. 


[He lies down. 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 167 


El Entendimiento. 


The Vnderftanding. 


Que bien. 


Yes ; 'tis right that thou ihouldft lleep. 


Para dormir, los fentidos 


Since apart from thee, there prone. 


Apartas de ti ; pues es 


Are thy Senfes ; for 'tis certain 


Cierto, que queda fin ellos 


That the man who fleeps doth hold 


El que duerme : y que bien fue 


Them no longer in his keeping : 


Cypres el Arbol, que aqui 


And the tree thou fleep'ft below. 


Tomafte para ti, pues 


Rightly hath thy choice felefled. 


Viene a fer Arbol de muerte. 


Since the cypreis long hath grown 


De quien el fueno tambien 


Death's efpecial tree ; and lleep 


Es fombra ; j aunque dorados 


Is death's Ihadow as we know. 


Los ricos Catres eften. 


Thus though weary man may llumber 


En que defcanfen los hombres. 


In rich couches gilded o'er. 


Defde el mendigo, haila el Rey, 


Call the wood of which they're made 


Aunque fean de otras maderas. 


What you pleafe, to king and clown 


Son Arboles de Cypres. 


Cyprefs is it all the while. 


Quedo el hombre fin fentido. 


Here then Man, by fleep o'erthrown. 


Y durmio ; { ya que he de hacer ? 


Lies infenfate : this being {0, 


Que aunque potencia del alma 


What remains for me to do ? 


Soy, y ella, que mortal no es. 


Since although I am the foul's 


Dormir no puede, elle tiempo 


Manifefted power, and that 


Que yaze el hombre, tambien 


Deathlefs fpark no fleep can know. 


Eftoy yo fin difcurrir, 


Still while man thus lies, am I 


Sin percibir, ni entender. 


Likewife left without difcourfe. 


Vaga mi imaginacion 


Powerlefs to perceive or think. 


Confufas vifiones ve ; 


Now my fantafy beholds 


Y todo es tiniebia, y fombras 


Vifions all confufed and dim. 


Para mi el Mundo, porque 


Darknefs o'er the world is thrown. 


Sin los fentidos no puedo 


Since without the Senfes, I 


A6I0S de razon hacer : 


Lofe all reafon and control : 


Seguirelos, pues fin mi 


I fliall follow them, fince Man, 


Se queda el hombre la vez 


While his eyes in fleep are clofed. 


Que duerme, y que fepultado 


Without me remains, and buried 


Temporal cadaver es. \Vafe. 


Thus, is for the while a corfe. {Exit. 


El Hombre. 


The Man {apep). 


Ay de mi ! pefado fuefio. 


Woe is me ! oppreffive dream. 


No tanto me aflijas, ten 


Pain me not fo much ! withhold 


La violencia de las fombras. 


Thefe thy fliadows' violent rage. 


\ Que es lo que mis ojos ven 


What is this my eyes behold. 



i6S LOS ENCJNTOS DE LA CULPJ. 


Sin villa? Mas digo ma], 
Que mis fentidos cobre ; 
Si bien informes, y brutos, 


Though my fight is gone? — Ah me ! 
Badly mull my thoughts be told 
Till my fenfes I recover. 


En el punto que llegue 


But I feem to fee a fwarm 


A ver eftos fieros monftruos. 

Que me quieren defhacer; 

Me pafma advertir, que quando 


Of mifshapen beafts approach me. 
Bent on draining my heart's gore. 
When their cruel fangs my fear 


Efperaba, que cruel 


Seems to fallen round my throat. 


Cada uno cebaffe en mi. 


At my feet I fee them kneeling 


Todos fe echan a mis pies ; 


With fubmiflive reverence low : 


Por feiias dicen, que huya. 
Que Jos quiero conocer 
Parece ; defefperados 
Se entran al Monte otra vez. 


They by ligns appear to fay. 
Fly ! oh ! fly this fatal Ihore ! 
Then when they perceive that I 
This their hidden meaning know. 


Que es efto, Cielos ! 


In defpair they all re-enter 

The wild mountain walle once more. 




What is this ? O Heavens ! 


Al irfe fale el Entendimiento como 


As he Jl arts up, the Understanding 


ajfombrado. 


enters amazed. 


El Entendimiento. 

Elcucha, 
Ulifes, yo ]o dire. 


The Vnderjianding, 

UlylTes, 
Hear me, and thou foon art told. 


Que aunque eftas aora incapaz 
De fentir, tocar, y ver. 


For although thou hall not now 
Power to fee, or itd, or hold. 


Porque brutos tus fentidos. 


Since thy Senfes have become 


Y entorpecidos fe ven, 
Por los vicios, a que tu 


Torpid, brutalifed, o'erthrown 
By the vices that thou gav'll them 


Los difte licencia ; bien 


Leave to feek, yet Hill I know 


Me entiendes : mas los del alma 


Thou canll underlland my meaning 


Fuerza es que velando eften. 


Through the foul's inllinftive force.* 


Apenas fuimos, Ulifes, 
Vagando aquefte Orizonte 


Scarce had we, UlylTes, gone 
This wild mountain's fummit over. 


Tus compaiieros, del Monte 
Penetrando los Paifes, 
Quando un Palacio eminente 


Hope, fome fair fields to difcover. 
Thy companions leading on. 
When our fight beheld with wonder 


* The alternate vowel monorhymes terminat 


e here, and the metre changes to the full confo- 


nant rhyme as in the text. 





THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 169 


Nueftra villa defcubrio. 


A proud palace rich and fair. 


Caya eminencia toco 


For whole lofty roofs the air 


A las nubes con la frente. 


Bade the gold clouds part afunder. 


Llegamos a fus umbrales. 


We its beauteous threfholds nearing, 


Y aviendo llegado a ellos. 


Reach'd them, and beheld, delighted. 


En dos Efquadrones bellos 


Two fair fquadrons disunited 


De hermoluras celefliales. 


Of celeftial nymphs appearing. 


Vimos falirnos a hacer 


And with fmiling looks of human 


Fieftas a nueflra fortuna, 


Sympathy for our dillrelTes — 


Con varias muficas una 


Mufic mingling its carelTes — 


Hermofiffima muger. 


After them one beauteous woman. 


De palTo la repeti 


Of our perils on the fea. 


Nueftra peregrinacion, 


Of our journeyings ending never. 


Que el ufo de la razon 


Brief I fpoke, fmce Reafon ever 


Siempre me ha tocado a mi. 


Throws that duty upon me. 


Ella, afablemente humana. 


Then her voice fo foftly bland. 


Dulcemente lifonjera. 


Yielding fwift to pity's law. 


A entender nos dio, que era 


Let us know, in her we faw 


De eflos Campos la Diana. 


The Diana of this land. 


Mas 70, como Entendimiento 


I, the Underilanding, who 


Soy, y a mi divino fer 


To that part which is divine 


Siempre le toca tener 


Add a wit fo keen and fine. 


Natural conocimiento. 


By my natural inilinft knew 


Conoci al inftante, que era 


She was Sin, that fierce and fell 


La Culpa fiera, y cruel. 


Monfter full of ravening rage. 


Que a habitar en un Verjel 


She who when of earlieft age 


Fue defde la edad primera. 


In a garden loved to dwell. 


Aqui damas fuyas Ton 


And her dames, to whofe addrefs 


Los vicios con que ella lidia. 


All her wiles entrufteth fhe. 


Lafcivia, Gula, y Embidia, 


Are Envy, Calumny, Gluttony, 


Lifonja, y Murmuracion. 


Flattery, and Voluptuoufnefs. 


Mandonos agaffajar 


Thefe, her ladies, then fhe bade 


De eftas damas, y ellas luego 


To regale us, — a beheft 


Al mandate, fi no al ruego. 


Scarcely needed ; the requefl 


Quifieron executar : 


Seem'd to make them but too glad, 


Y con viciofos placeres 


Since upon the inftant they 


Al momento nos brindaron ; 


Flung their vicious wiles around them. 


Tus fentidos, que fe hallaron 


And thy Senfes, who thus found them 


Servidos ya de mugeres 


Served in this fedu6live way 



70 



LOS ENCANTOS DE LA CULPA, 



Tan hermofas, y tan bellas. 

Sin ver que el Entendimiento 

AUi fe hallaba, al momento 

Se conformaron con ellas. 

La Embidia, que es toda enojos 

Del bien que en Jos otros ve, 

Viendo a la Viila, porque 

La Embidia, al fin, toda es ojos. 

La Lafcivia, que fe ofrece 

En los alhagos cruel, 

Brindo al Ta6lo, porque el 

Las blanduras apetece. 

La Murmuracion, que es quien 

Lo malo ve, y no lo bueno, 

Brindo al Olfato, que lleno 

De efte defedlo le ven. 

Solo por effo le igualo 

Con caufa al murmurador. 

Que no alaba lo mejor, 

Y hace lo malo mas malo. 

La Gula al Gufto brindo, 

Probarlo no es menefter ; 

Porque bien fe dexa ver. 

Que el Gufto a la Gula amo. 

La Lifonja, mortal fiera 

De las Cortes, al Oido 

Brindo, que el objeto ha Mo' 

De toda voz lifonjera. 

La Sobervia, con intento 

De que el veneno que efconde 

PaffafTe a mi, porque es donde 

Peligra el Entendimiento, 

Me brindo ; mas fin el fruto. 

Que de mi eftaba efperando, 

Por faber yo, que en pecando 

Se convierte el hombre en bruto. 

David lo diga, que atento 

Efte fentir en el hallo. 

Que el que peca es un cavallo. 



By fuch lovely ladies fair, 

(Neither wifhing nor demanding 

Aid from me, the Underftanding), 

Yielded all, without a care. 

Envy, who with agonies 

Sees another's merit Ihine, 

Pledged the Sight, becaufe in fine 

Envy is herfelf all eyes. 

Wantonnefs, that ever were 

Cruel moft when moft carefllng, 

Tempted Touch by her addrefling. 

Since he loves foft lures like her. 

Calumny that doth rejed 

Good for bad, and falfe for true. 

Smell feleded, fince he too 

Labours 'neath the fame defeft : 

If on this account alone. 

He with Calumny fhould mate. 

That he ne'er doth celebrate 

The better and the worfe makes known. 

Gluttony the Tafte allured. 

Little proof this needs from me. 

Since that Tafte loves Gluttony 

All the world is well afliired. 

Flattery was Hearing's choice, — 

Flattery, that mortal peft. 

Known to courts, where he's the queft 

Of each falfe and flattering voice. 

Pride, with full intent that I 

Should her hidden poifon drink, 

(Underftanding, Danger's brink 

Neareth, when that nymph is nigh). 

Came and pledged me, but the fruit 

Hoped for fo, fhe fail'd in winning. 

Since I know that man, by finning 

Is tranfmuted to a brute. 

David's fong the finner tells. 

If in fin perfifteth he. 

Comes a beaft of earth to be. 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 



171 



En quien no ay entendimiento. 

Y fue affi, que como fueron 
Bebiendo, todos mudados 
En fieras, y trans form ados 
En varias formas fe vieron. 
Mas atencion defde aqui, 
Hombre, te pide mi acento ; 
Efcucha a tu entendimiento. 
Que es el que te habla. 

E/ Ho7nbre, 

Di. 
El Entendimiento. 
La Villa, en Tigre cruel 
Fue de la Embidia defpojos. 
Que efte animal todo es ojos, 
Bien lo publica fu piel 
Manchada de ellos ; y quando 
No bade efto, baftara. 
Que el Tigre muerte fe da. 
Si oye mufica, rabiando. 

Y el embidiofo, en fus penas 
Se da muerte cada dia, 

vSi oye la dulce harmonia 
Que hacen las dichas agenas. 
El Tafto, que fue el objeto 
Que a la Lafcivia creyo. 
En Oflb fe convirtio. 
Que efte animal, imperfefto. 
Sin forma, y fin ojos nace : 

Y el Apetito, a creer llego. 
Que nace fin forma, y ciego, 
Pues tantos errores hace. 

El Gufto (gloton hambriento) 
En un bruto inmundo fue 
Transformado ; efto porque 
Solo a. fu comida atento 
Vive, fin que de fu pecho 
El hombre fervicio adquiera, 
Pues ha meneiler que muera 



In whofe foul no reafon dwells. 
Thus it was, as each, the bowl 
Drank of poifon'd blifs deranged. 
Quick to grovelling beads they changed. 
Reft of fenfe, of Ihape, of foul. 
Thy attention, O thou weak 
Man ! my voice is ftill demanding ; 
Liften to thy Underftanding, 
Who doth fpeak to thee. 
The Man. 

Still fpeak. 
The JJnderJianding. 
Sight, a tiger fierce did grow. 
He, the keen-eyed Envy's prize. 
Since an animal all eyes. 
As its fpotted ikin doth fhow. 
Is the tiger, and we may 
This additional reafon add. 
That the tiger dieth mad. 
If he hears fweet mufic play. 
Thus the envious man doth feel 
Every day the pangs of death, '' 

If he heareth rumour's breath 
Sweetly fpeak another's weal. 
Touch, that foon became the thrall 
Of Defire's lafcivious air. 
Was transform 'd into a bear — 
An imperfedl animal. 
At its birth unform'd and blind — 
As is Appetite, that makes. 
Therefore, all its dread miftakes 
Sightlefs, formlefs, undefined. 
Talle, the hungry glutton, grew 
Eafily a filthy fwine — 
It a beaft that doth incline 
But to eat and eat anew, — 
Long delaying to conduce 
To man's benefit thereby. 
Since 'tis needful he muft die 



172 LOS ENCJNTOS 


DE LA CULPA, 


Para ferle de provecho. 
El Olfato, que entregado 
Se vio a la murmuracion. 


Ere he turns to any ufe. 
Calumny, that had thrown out 
Lures to Smell, converted him 


Se convirtio en un Leon, 


Into a lion, gaunt and grim. 


Que es quien rugidos ha dado. 


Who, loud roaring, roams about. 


Y finalmente, el Oido, 
Que falfedades creyo 


Laftly, Hearing, that had grown 
But to live on what it heard, 


Lifonjeras, fe miro 

En Camaleon convertido : 


Trufting every idle word. 
Changed to a chameleon ; 


Y el bruto, que vivir quiere 


Since the being that but needs 


Del viento folo fiado. 


For its life the air, be fure 


Es el mas vivo trallado 
De la lifonja en que muere. 
El Hombre, 


Is a lively portraiture 
Of the fenfe that Flattery feeds. 
The Man. 


Dodo Entendimiento mio 
En gran peligro me veo. 


O my guide in every ill ! 

'Mid the rifles that round me hover. 


A mis fentidos defeo 


I my Senfes would recover 


Refcatar con mi alvedrio. 


By the ranfom of my will. 


Para vivir, pues que yo 


If 'twere but to live, lince I 


No puedo de aqui aulentarme. 
Que no tengo de dexarme 


Have no power by flight to fave me. 
If all thofe whom Nature gave me. 


Compaiieros, que me dio 
Mi mifma naturaleza. 


As companions, forth not fly 
With me from this fatal coall. 


Y fupuefto que perdidos 
Todos mis cinco fentidos 


And fuppofing that within 
This enchanted wild of fln 


Eftan en ella afpereza 

De la culpa, entrar intento 


My five Senfes may be loft. 
Still I'll enter, notwithftanding. 


A libertarlos, porque 


Them to free, becaufe I know 


Bien de la emprelfa faldre. 
Si voy con mi Entendimiento. 

El Entendimiento. 
Pues que conmigo has de ir 
A cobrarlos, ha de fer 


I to vidlory muft go. 

Going with my Underftanding. 

The UnderJIanding. 
Since then to this dangerous taflc. 
Led by me, you mean to run. 


Con tres cofas que has de hacer. 


There are three things to be done. 


Primeramente, pedir 


In the firft place, you muft aflc 


Al Cielo perdon de que 
Tan mal los aconfejafte. 


Heaven to pardon the exprefs 
Sandlion and unwife advice 


Que al riefgo los entregafle. 
Otra, confelTar que fue 


Given by you, that they to Vice 
Should entrurt them : next, confefs 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 



»73 



Tuya la culpa que ha avido, 
Aunque ellos fueron, Ulifes, 
Los que entregarfe quifieron. 

Y otra, averfe arrepentido. 

El Hombre. 
Digo, que pido perdon 
Del mal exemplo, (ay de mi !) 
Que a mis fentidos les di : 
Digo, que hago confeffion 
De la culpa que he tenido 
De que fe ayan entregado 
A las manos del pecado, 

Y que voy arrepentido. 

Tocan Chirimiasy y defciibrefe un Arco 
Iris en un Carro, y en el la Peni- 
TENCiA, y canta la Mufica. 

La Mujica. 
Ya que el Hombre confielTa fu culpa, 
Y arrepentido me pide perdon, 
(O Penitencia !) pues eres el Iris, 
Acude bolando a darle favor. 

Penitencia. 
Ya corro veloz 

En el arco de Paz, en quien haces 
Las amiftades del hombre, y de Dios. 

El Hombre, 
I Que mulica tan fonora 
Es la que oimos los dos ? 

El Entendimiento. 
Auxilio es que te da Dios. 
El Hombre. 
^Y aquel bello Arco, que aora 
Sobre las nubes fe aiTienta? 

El Entendimiento. 
Arco es, que la Paz abona. 



That the fault was thine that call 
Them into the fnares of fin. 
They not loath to enter in, — 
Let repentance be the lail. 

The Man. 
I declare, for fuch tranfgreffion. 
For the bad example given 
To my Senfes, I a£lc Heaven 
To forgive me : next, confeffion 
For the fault, by whofe event 
Into Sin's foul hands they fell, 
I declare aloud as well : 
And that truly I repent. 

There is a peal of Clarions^ and a 
Rainbow appears ; beneath it is a 
Chariot, and in it is Penance; the 
Mujic Jtngs. 

The Mufic, 
Now that Man his fmful fault confeiTes, 
And repenting afks to be forgiven. 
Fly, O Penance! fly, celeftial Iris, 
Grace to grant him once again from 
Heaven ! 

Penance. 
Yes, adown the iky. 
On the arch of Peace I fly — 
On the arch whofe myftic fpan 
Amity proclaims 'twixt God and man. 

The Man. 
Ah ! that mufic fo fonorous 
Which we hear, what may it be ? — 

The Underjianding. 
God's affiftance aiding thee. 

The Man. 
And that beauteous Bow, that o'er us 
Refts on clouds its radiant form ? 

The Underjianding. 
Is the Bow that bringeth Peace — 



174 LOS ENCJNTOS 


' DE LA CULPA, 


Y que ya ceffo pregona 


Is the Bow that maketh ceafe 


El rigor de la tormenta. 


All the rigour of the ilorm. 


Dios le pufo por feiial 


God has placed it as a fign — 


De Paz entre fi, y el hombre. 


Peaceful fign — 'twixt him and thee : 


Y affi el verle no te affombre. 


Therefore, Man, rejoice and fee. 


£/ Hombre, 


The Man. 


^•YlaNinfaCeleftial, 


And the heavenly nymph divine. 


Quien es, que faberlo efpero ? 


Who is fhe ? oh ! make her known ! 


El Entenditniento, 


2'he Underftanding. 


La Iris, Embaxatriz 


Iris, the EmbafTadrefs, 


Mas folicita, y feliz 


Who with happy hafte doth prefs 


Del Jupiter verdadero. 


Downward from the true Jove's throne. 


La que a los hombres embia 


Bears her hither, to confole 


A confolar fu dolencia. 


Man in all his mifery. 


El Hombre, 


The Man, 


Pues quien es ? 


And her name ? — 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underftanding. 


La Penitencia ; 


Is Penance: fee 


Bien que en efta alegoria 


How this allegoric whole 


Probado efta con decir. 


Proves what has been faid before, — 


Que es la que con dulce nombre 


She it is who comes in Heaven's high 


Se pone entre Dios, y el hombre. 


plan. 




Mediating betwixt God and man. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Su voz bolvamos a oir. 


Let us hear her voice once more. 


La Mufica. 


The Mufic. 


Pues el hombre coniieffa, &c. 


Now that man, &c. 


Penitencia. 


Penance, 


Ya corro veloz, &c. 


Yes, adown the iky, &c. 


Chriftiano Ulifes, tus voces 


Chriftian-born Ulyffes, higher 


En el Empyreo fe oyeron. 


Than the heavens were heard thy ac- 


Que ellas halla el fubir faben 


cents,* 


Por las Efcalas del viento. 


They well knowing how to climb there 


Y viendo, que tus fentidos 


By the wind's invifible ladder. 


Tan poftrados, y delhechos 


When, beholding that thy Senfcs 


De la culpa eftan, y que es 


Were by fin overthrown and fcatter'd. 


* The afonante vowels in the original are, 


', 0, as in Viento, Oyeron, &c. j for thefe I have 


fubftituted, in this fcene, a, e, as in accents^ l^dd^ 


r, enchdfntfd, &;c. 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN, 175 


El refcatarlos tu intento. 


And that thy intention is 


El gran Jupiter me embia 


For their refcue to do battle, — 


Con auxilios, 7 confuelos 


Me, to aid thee and to counfel. 


A ti, para que la Culpa 


Hath the mighty Jove defpatched. 


Con fus hechizos fobervios 


That from all Sin's proud bewitchments 


No pueda danarte, y puedas 


Should to thee no evil happen ; 


Tu pollrarlos, y vencerlos. 


And that thou may'll wholly conquer 


Aquellas flores te traygo. 


And undo her word enchantments. 




Take ihefe flowers that I bring thee. 


[Da/e un Ramillete de jlores. 


\Let5 fall a bunch of flowers. 


Que es un Ramillete bello 


Beauteous bunch of flowers, all dappled 


De virtudes matizadas 


O'er with virtues from the life-blood 


Con la Sangre de un Cordero, 


Of a Lamb, whofe crimfon altar 


De quien Ara fue cruenta 


Was a tree's unmeafured hardnefs. 


La Inmenfa crueldad de un Leno, 


By whofe myftic aid thou mayeft 


En virtud de fus virtudes 


All her poifon'd fnares down trample ; 


Poftrar podras fus venenos. 


Touch them but with this — that mo- 


Que no tendran fuerza alguna 


ment 


En tocandolas a ellos. 


Shall they lofe all power to harm thee — 


Toma, y a Dios : y no temas 


Take it, and adieu ! Thou need 'ft not 


Que me aufente, aunque me aufento. 


Fear my abfence ; for, though abfent. 


Porque liempre que me llames, 


Ever when thou calleft on me 


Veras, que a tus voces buelvo. 


Thou flialt fee that I will anfwer. 


Ella, y Mufica, 


Penance and Mufic together. 


Corriendo veloz 


Yes, along the Iky, 


En el arco de Paz, en quien hace 


On the arch of Peace I fly — 


Las amiftades del hombre, y de Dios. 


On the arch whofe myftic fpan 




Amity proclaims 'twixt God and man. 


\Tocan Chirmias,y defaparece el 


[While the Clarions play, the Rain- 


Arco, 


bozo and Penance difappear. 


El Hombre, 


The Man, 


Iris bello, hermofa Ninfa, 


Beauteous Iris, lovely nymph. 


No defvanezcas tan prefto 


Do not hide in fuch fwift darknefs 


Tanta multitud de Eftrellas, 


Such a hoft of ftarry fplendours — 


Tanta copia de Luzeros. 


Such a crowd of meteor flaflies. 


El Entendimiento 


The Underflanding, 


Rayo de Luz, que has corrido 


Ray of light, that through the wind- 


Por las Campaiias del viento. 


fwept 


Seiial de Paz, que a Moyfes 


Plains of azure Heaven hath darted — 



176 LOS ENCANTOS 


DE LA CULPA. 


Dios fenalo en el Defierto : 


Sign of peace, which in the defert 




God to Mofes indicated — 


El Hombre. 


The Man, 


Tente, aguarda. 


Stay ! detain thee ! 


El Eniendimiento. 


The Underjlanditig. 


Efcucha, efpera. 


Liften ! wait ! 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Fuefe, dexandome impreffo 


She is gone, but in her pafl'age 


Un renglon de tres colores 


Leaving me a line of greeting 


En el Papel de los Cielos. 


Writ in triple-hued enamel. 


J Ay Entendimiento mio. 


On the fkies cerulean paper, — 


Dichofo foy, pues que tengo 


Underftanding mine, how happy 


Con que veneer los encantos 


Am I in a power pofTefling 


De efta Circe ! 


Of fubduing the enchantments 




Of this Circe ! 


El Entendimiento. 


The Vnderjlanding. 


Alza del fuelo 


From the ground 


Effas flores. 


Raife the flowers. 


El Hombre. 


The Man {in doing fo). 


Ay de mi ! 


Oh! 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underftanding. 


Que fientes ? 


What fmarts thee ? 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Herirme fiento 


By the fliarp thorns round thefe rofes 


Con fus efpinas. \_Jlza las fores. 


I am wounded. 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underftanding. 


Las flores 


Yes ; the fharpnefs 


De la penitencia, es cierto 


Of the penitential flowers 


Que afperas Ton al principio. 


Is the firft thing felt, but after. 


Quanto fon fragrantes luego. 


Nought but their delicious fragrance. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Efpinas de mi pecado. 


Ah ! with fear I ftoop to handle 


Con temor a alzaros llego. 


Ye, the fharp thorns of my fln. 


Vamos, que aunque mis fentidos 


Let us on ! for though this faftnefs 


Eften cautivos, y prefos 


Keeps my captive Senfes chain'd. 


De fu belliflimo encanto. 


Spell-bound by fuchfweet enchantment. 


Afli libertad pretendo. 


Still I hope to liberate them. 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underftanding. 


No tienes que ir a bufcarla. 


Then to meet with the enchantrefs. 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 



177 



Que ella a bafcarte a eile puello 
Ha falido, con las voces 
De muficas, e Inftrumentos. 



Salen la Lascivia, y la Culpa detras 
de todos, y traen una Salvilla, un 
Vafo de plat a ^ y otra una Toalla al 
Hombro. 

La Muftca. 
En hora dichofa venga 
A eflos Jardines amenos 
El Peregrino del Mar, 
Donde halle feguro Puerto. 

La Culpa. 
En hora dichofa venga, 
Digan los dulces acentos, 
Una, y mil veces, fin que 
Nada les ufurpe el eco, 
Vandolero de los Ayres, 
Que fe queda con los medios. 
En hora dichofa venga 
E] hombre, que por fus hechos 
Es affunto de la fama 
Por fu valor, y fu ingenio, 
Donde tengan fus fortunas 
Dulce Patria, amado centro. 
Noble afylo, illuftre amparo, 
Blando albergue, y feliz Puerto. 
Apenas fupe, inconflante 
Huefped de dos Elementos, 
Que fobre tribulaciones 
Baten las olas, furgiendo 
Ya los embates del Mar, 
Ya las rafagas del Viento. 
Apenas fupe, Senor, 
Oy de vueflros companeros, 
(A quien ya en Palacios mios 
Bien agafTajados rengo) 



Thou no farther need'ft to go. 
Since to meet thee Ihe advances. 
See, fhe comes with fongs and mufic, 
And her firen train, to charm thee I 

Enter ^y^, followed by Voluptuousness, 
Flattery, and others. Voluptu- 
ousness bears a faher, on which is a 
filver goblet, and Flattery a napkin. 

The Mufic. 
Happy, happy, be the hour 
That to thefe delicious gardens 
Comes the Pilgrim of the Sea, 
In a fafe port happily landed. 

Sin. 
Happy be the hour he cometh ! 
Sing again in fofteft accents — 
Once, a thoufand times repeat it — 
So that Echo, the freehanded 
Robber of the air, may filch not 
From the found his ufual largefs. 
Happy be the hour that cometh 
Here the man to whom is granted. 
For his wit and worth in warfare. 
Fame the proudeft and the amplell: : 
Here, wherein a home and country 
Now his happier fate imparteth, — 
A proud Ihelter — a high fafeguard — 
A foft reft — a happy haven. 
Scarcely had I heard, O ever 
Changeful gueft of air and water. 
Of two elements the viftor. 
Since on troublous billows wafted. 
Now the rude fea's rage thou curbeft — 
Now the wild wind's mightier mad- 
Scarcely had I heard, my lord, [nefs :— 
From thy comrades, whom my palace 
Entertaineth now and welcomes 
In obedience to my mandate, — 



\ 



\ 



1/8 LOS ENCANI'OS 


DE LA CULPA, 


Que erais el valiente Ulifes, 


That thou wert the brave Ulyffes, 


Que quiere decir en Griego 


Which doth mean in Grecian parlance. 


Hombre ingeniofo (que al fin 


An aftute-foul'd man (aftutenefs . 


No ay fin, cautelas ingenio) 


Being, as 'twere, a twin with talent). 


Que de la Troya del Mundo 


Who from flaming Troy efcaping. 


Huyendo venis al fuego. 


Hither to a fire haft wander'd. 


A quien vos mifmo en vos mifmo 


Which within thyfelf thou feedeft. 


Alimentais en incendios. 


From internal quenchlefs aflies, — 


Quando a recibiros falgo 


When I hurried to receive thee 


Con todo effe Coro bello 


With this beauteous choir of damfels. 


De mis damas, celebrando 


Celebrating with due honour 


Tan noble recibimiento. 


Such a noble ftranger's advent. 


Llegad todas a fus plantas. 


At his feet then lowly kneeling. 


Y con cortefes fellejos 


Welcome in the coftlieft manner 


Le faludad ; y porque 


His arrival, and, becaufe 


El que en el Mar tanto tiempo 


He who in the fea has tarried 


Fluftuo golfos de penas 


Such a length of time, exchanging 


En pielagos de tormentos. 


Gulfs of gloom for waves of faltnefs. 


Es la fed la que le aflije ; 


Was by thirft afiUfted moftly— 


Mas a quien no admira efto. 


Strange, the fea, which is all water, 


Que fiendo el Mar todo agua, 


That it fhould its guefts leave thirfty. 


Tenga a fu huefped fediento? 


And the liquid ftore fo ample ! — 


Brindadle con effe Neftar, 


Pledge him with this honey'd nedar 


Que efta de dulzuras lleno,, 


Sweeten'd by celeftial favours. 


En tanto que en mis Palacios 


While within my palace yonder 


Mas regalos le prevengo. 


Are prepared more feftive banquets. 


La Lafcivia. 


Voluptuoujnefs, 


Bebe, Seiior, el fabrofo 


Drink, my lord, the fweetly-favour'd 


Licor que yo te prefento. 


Liquor, which I dare to hand thee. 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underfianding. 


i Ay de ti, fi le bebieres. 


Woe to thee, if thou doft drink it ! 


Que todo es lafcivo fuego ! 


Liquid luft-fire fills that chalice ! 


Que haces ? 


What then wilt thou do ? 


El Hombre, 


The Man, 


Para reliftirme 


I ftruggle 


Conmigo mefmo peleo. 


With myfelf in felf-fought battle!— 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underfianding, 


I No le bebas, ya no fabes 


Drink it not : the draught concealeth 


Que es tofigo, y es veneno ? 


Poifon deadlier than the adder. 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN, 179 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Si, Entendimiento, y tu avifo 


Yes, my Underftanding, yes : \_Afide. 


Ha llegado a muy buen tiempo. 


Timely come thy words to warn me: — 


Eiloy cobarde, eftoy mudo. 


I am timid, I am mute, [71? Sin. 


Tanto al cortes cumplimiento. 


Thinking of the courteous favour 


Que debo a vueftra beldad. 


Which I owe to thy perfedlions, 


Y a vueftra hermofura debo ; 


Which I owe thy beauty, lady. 


Que aunque retorico fui, 


For, though fkill'd in fpeech were I, 


Al miraros enmudezco : 


Dumb I'd grow in gazing at thee : — 


En fe de lo qual, el neftar 


Therefore I thy profFer'd nedar 


Con que me brindais acepto; 


Take, and thus by taking thank thee ; 


Mas por no fer defcortes 


But, that I may not be wholly 


Hare la falva primero 


Wanting in more courteous manner. 


Con eftas flores, que no 


I fhall firft falute and touch it 


Se atreven a fer grofTeros 


With thefe flowers, the groffer advent 


Tanto mis labios, que lleguen 


Of my lips prefuming only 


Sin aquelTe cumplimiento. 


Such fweet tribute to come after. 


\Toca el Vajo en el Ramillete, y 


\He dips the nofegay in the golet 


/ale Fuego. 


from which fire ijfues. 


La Lafcivia. 


Foluptuoufnefs, 


Ay de mi ! El Fuego que avia 


Woe is me ! the fecret fire 


En efte Vafo encubierto 


Which within this cup I fcatter'd 


Rebento. 


Has burft forth. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Es verdad, que mal 


'Tis true, for hard 


Arde encendido tu fuego. 


Is't to hide the fire thou wakeft. 


Vil Lafcivia. 


Vile Voluptuoufnefs. 


La Lafcivia. 


Voluptuoufnefs, 


Ay infeliz I 


Ah! me. 




Woe the day ! — 


La Culpa. 


Sin, 


Mortales furias ! 


My fury mads me ! 


El Hombre. 


The Man, 


Que es efto } 


Why, Sin? 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Saber oy, que defvanezcas 


For now I know 


Mis encantos. 


You have conquer'd my enchantments. 


El Hoinbre. 


The Man. 


Si, que aviendo 


Yes, for having ventured hither 



i8o LOS ENCJNTOS 


D E LA CULPA. 


Llegado aqui accompanado 


Companied and happily guarded 


De mi noble entendimiento. 


By my noble Underftanding, 


Aunque llegue fin fentidos, 


Though I come here in the abfence 


Porque tu me los has prefo. 


Of my Senles, Hill kept captive 


Con efte ramo fabre 


By thy wiles, to me is granted 


Defvanecer tus intentos, 


Power to fruftrate thy intentions 


Porque es el ramo de Iris, 


By this little branch I carry — 


Que elta de virtudes lleno. 


Wonder-working branch of Iris — 




Full of virtues and of marvels. 


La Culpa, 


Sin. 


Ay infelice de mi ! 


Ah ! unhappy me ! the fire 


I Aviendo volado el fuego 


Having from the mine departed. 


De ]a mina, que ocultaba 


Which beneath fair Flattery's feeming 


Entre lifonja mi pecho. 


Hid my heart within its caverns ! 


Como foy yo, como foy 


How am I ? Oh ! how am I 


La que me abrafo ? Qtie es ello ? 


Still its viftim? How does't happen 


I Tu eres quien la mina enciende. 


That the mine for thee enkindled. 


Y foy yo quien la rebiento ? 


Burfts 'neath me and leaves me blafted? 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Si, que fabiendo que eres 


Thus ; no fooner had I heard 


Horror de aqueftos Deliertos, 


That thou wert the fhame and fcandal 


Y Circe de eftas Montanas, 


Of thefe deferts, the dread Circe 


Que quiere decir en Griego 


Of thefe mountains, the enchantrefs 


Maleficiofa Hechicera, 


That thy Grecian name expreffes, 


A darte la muerte vengo, 


Than I came here to defpatch thee, 


Y a refcatar mis fentidos 


And to liberate my Senfes 


De la prifion de tus hierros. 


From the prifon of thy fhackles. 


\_Saca la Daga. 


\_Draws his dagger. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Ten la Daga ; efpera, aguarda. 


Hold thy hand ! Oh ! do not thou 


No manches tan noble acero 


Stain the bright fteel of thy dagger 


En mi, que foy inmortal. 


With the blood of an immortal. 


Y ya fin morir me has muerto. 


Deathlefs though I be, thou ftabbeft 


Yo bolvere tus fentidos 


Deep enough without fuch aidance. 


A fu fer, porque viniendo 


Back, the Senfes thou demandeft 


Armado de las virtudes. 


I fhall give thee, fince beholding 


Que dio tu arrepentimiento. 


That thy penitence hath arm'd thee 


No tengo yo poder, no. 


So with virtues, I no longer [them. 


Para guardarlos mas tiempo. 


Have the ftrength or power to guard 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN. i8i 


Oido, que oifte lifonjas. 


Hearing ! thou to whom light words 


Que tu dulce encanto fueron. 


Were a fource of fweet enchantment, 


Por quien te tuvo trocado 


On account of which defeft 


En Camaleon tu afefto. 


A chameleon's fhape I gave thee ! 


Sale el Oido como ajfombrado. 


Enter the Hearing, amazed. 


El OUo. 
I De que letargo tan dulce 


The Hearing. 
Ah! from fuch fweet lethargy 


A efta nueva voz defpierto ? 


JVIuft I at this new voice waken? 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Olfato murmurador 


Smell ! that libelleft in turn 


De \o malo, y de lo bueno. 


Equally all forms of matter. 


Que fuille Leon, que difte 


Thou a lion late, whofe breath 


Daiiado olor con tu aliento. 


Fetid odours round thee fcatter'd ! 


Sale el Olfato ajjombrado. 


Enter the Smell, amaxed. 


El Olfato. 


The Smell. 


J O nunca yo defpertara 


Ah ! that I had never woken 


De tan regalado jueno ! 


From a fleep by dreams fo gladden'd ! 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Ta6lo, que lafcivaraente 


Touch ! that, by thy low defires 


Empleado en tus defeos 
Offo fuifte, pues que nace 


Wholly occupied and trammell'd, 
Wert a bear, fince it is born 


Sin forma, fin villa, y cuerpo. 


Sightlefs, formlefs, and unfhapen ! 


Sale el Tacto ajfombrado. 


Enter the Touch, amazed. 


El Taao. 


The Touch. 


\ Que a mi pefar me levanto 


Oh ! the forrow ! to arife 


De tan regalado ]echo ! 
La Culpa. 


From a bed fo foftly padded ! 
Sin. 


Vifta, que manchado Tigre 


Sight ! that in thefe deferts here 


Has pacido efte Defierto, 
Pues embidiofo eres ojos 


Liveft like a fpotted panther, 
Fleck'd with envious eyes to fee 


Que fientes bienes agenos. 


Aught of alien good that happens ! 


Sale la Vista como ajfombrado. 


Enter the Sight, amazed. 


La Vijia. 
I Si noche han de fer los mios. 


The Sight. 
Of what fervice are mine eyes. 


De que firve lo que veo ? 


If I'm doom'd to dwell in darknefs? 



i82 LOS ENCANTOS DE LA CULPA. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Gullo, que animal inmundo 


Tafte ! that art a beall unclean. 


Eres, porque fiempre hambriento 


Since with hunger never fated. 


Solo en efta vida cuidas 


The fole thought of thy exiftence 


De fuftentarte a ti mefmo. 


Is how beft to feed and fatten ! 


Sale el Gusto ajfombrado. 


Enter the Taste, amazed. 


El Gufto. 


The Tafte. 


Que era un gran puerco foiiaba. 


What a hog I dream'd I was ! 


Nadie que ay que creer en fueiios 


Dreams are fables though, what matter? 


Diga, 6 fi diga, pues oy 


Waking or afleep by me 


Lo foy dormido, y defpierto. 


Is the felf-fame part enafted. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Ya eftan aqui tus fentidos, 


See, thy Senfes all are here : 


Ya a tu poder te los buelvo. 


Back into thy power I hand them. 


Idos, que en mi no durais 


Go ! your ftay with me endured 


Sino folamente el tiempo 


Only for the time your matter. 


Que tarda en venir el hombre 


Man, delay'd to come and claim you. 


Per vofotros ; pues es cierto, 


Since 'tis certain power is granted 


Que eila en fu mano el cobraros. 


Not alone to man to lofe you. 


Como en fu mano el perderos. 


But to regain you when you're abfent. 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underftanding. 


No efperas mas, ven a efte 


Stay no longer here, but come 


Baxel de tu Entendimiento. 


To my bark in which we landed. 


El Oido. 


The Hearing. 


I Donde hemos de ir tan aprieffa ? 


Whither fhould we go fo quickly ? 


I Apenas llegado avemos 


Scarce have we the beauteous gardens 


A eilos Palacios, y ya 


Of this friendly palace enter'd. 


Nos quieres aufentar de ellos ? 


And already we're debarr'd them. 


La Vifta. 


The Sight. 


I Adonde quieres llevarnos 


Wouldft thou bring us back to fea. 


Por t&. Mar padeciendo ? 


There to fufFer new difafters ? 


El Olfato. 


The Smell. 


Dexa que de las pafladas 


Let us here recruit our llrength 


Fortunas nos reparemos. 


After all the ills we've mailer'd. 


El Gufio. 


The Tafte. 


Dexame, Senor, que fea 


Let me be a hog, I pray. 


Puerco otro poco de tiempo. 


Once again, good fir, I afk thee. 


Pues no ay mas feguridad 


Since of all the lives I know 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 183 


En el Mundo, que fer puerco. 


1 
A hog's life is the moft happy. 


E/ Entendimiento. 


The Underjianding. 


En fin, fois brutos, fentidos. 


Ah ! fo brutiih are the Senfes, 


Tan brutos, que holgais de ferlo. 


To be brutes appears to glad them ! 


El Gufto. 


The Tafie. 


I No fabemos quan bueno es 


Have we not found out how pleafant 


Eftar comiendo, y grunendo ? 


'Tis to eat and grunt untrammell'd ? 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underjianding. 


^* Vamos, que efperes, Ulifes ? 


Come, UlyiTes, why delay ? 


El Hombre. 


The Man, 


Vamos, pero no tan prefto. 


Let us go, — but ftill there's ample 


Porque de aver vifto aqui 


Time to fpare, for fince I fee 


Mis fentidos mal contentos 


How my Senfes are diftradled 


De dexar eftas delicias. 


At abandoning thefe pleafures. 


No fe (ay de mi !) lo que fiento. 


Ah ! I know not how I falter. 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underjianding. 


Yo te llevare por fuerza. 


I muft drag you hence by force. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


No haras tal, que tu confejo 


Ah ! by force you cannot drag me. 


Arraftrarme no podra, 


But by counfel you may lead : 


Moverme si, ya lo has hecho : 


Even already you attra6l me ; 


Ve a prevenir el Baxel, 


Go, prepare the bark, for you 


Pues Piloto eres. 


Are the pilot. 


El Entendimiento. 


2he Underjianding. 


Ya buelvo. \Vafe. 


Yes, with gladnefs 




To return here. [Exit. 


El Hombre. 


The Man {aftde). 


Por poder mas libremente 


That this goddefs 


Ver efta Deidad, le aufento 


I may fee with freer glances. 


De mi aquefte breve inftante 


Undeterr'd by his fuggeftions. 


Sin temor de fus preceptos. — 


I have thus contrived his abfence. 


La Culpa [aparte). 


Sin {afide). 


Aora pod re hablarle, pues 


I can tempt him now, fince his 


Aparto fu entendimiento. 


Underftanding hath departed. 


Ya Ulifes, que vidloriofo 


Ulyffes ! crown'd with trophies. 


Te miras de mi, bolviendo 


Vanquilher of my enchantments. 


De elTas incultas Montaiias 


Flying from this lonely ifland. 


Coronado de trofeos. 


From its mountains and morafles. 


No tan prefto al Mar te entregues 


Do not truft thyfelf fo quickly 



En efTe inconilante leiio, 
Que el Mar da la Vida furca, 
Amenazado de riefgos. 
Mira alterados los Mares, 
Que con veloz movimiento 
En pyramides de efpumas. 
Son Alcazares de hielo. 
Dexa que el Mar fe ferene ; 
Y pues te miras exempto 
De la Magia de mi encanto. 
En fe de effe ramo bello. 
Que te dio la Iris, no quieras 
Bolverte al afan tan prello : 
Defcanfa en mi albergue oy. 
Que maiiana fera tiempo 
Para dexar eftos Montes 
De tantas delicias llenos. 
J Que priefTa te corre aora 
De aufentarte ; y mas fabiendo. 
Que yo, cada vez que quieras 
Ir, detenerte no puedo ? 
Entra en mis ricos Palacios, 
Donde fon divertimientos 
Todas fus ocupaciones 
Para el aplicado Ingenio. 
Veras mis grandes Elludios, 
Mis admirables portentos 
Examinaras, tocando 
De mi Ciencia los efeftos. 
i Por que pienfas que me llaman 
La Circe de eftos Defiertos ? 
Porque Ciencias prohibidas. 
Que fon Leyes que yo tengo. 
Con mis eftudios alcanzo. 
Con mis vigilias aprendo. 
Veras apagado el Sol, 
Solo a un foplo de mi aliento ; 
Pues en la luciente edad. 
El dia yo le obfcurezco : 



To the wild and dangerous vaftnefs 
Of the fea of life, to plough it 
In a frail bark fo unftable. 
See ! its mighty breaft upheaving, 
In its rapid movement fparkles 
Now as pyramids of cryftal. 
Now as fnow-embattled caftles. 
Wait the wild turmoil's abating. 
Wait until the fea grows calmer; 
And lince thou haft been exempted 
From the fpell of my enchantment 
By the gift that Iris gave thee, — 
By that budding beauteous branchlet, — 
Oh ! return not back fo quickly 
To its dangers and difafters : 
Reft thee in my houfe to-day ; 
In the morning will be ample 
Time for thee to fly thefe mountains 
And thefe joy-enfolding gardens. 
Why fo fwiftly fly for fafety. 
Knowing well thou art fo guarded, 
That whenever thou wouldft leave me 
I am powerlefs to withftand thee ? — 
Enter then my dazzling palace. 
Where an intellectual banquet. 
Graced by gladnefs and enjoyment. 
Waits upon thy welcome advent. 
Thou wilt fee my deep refearches, — 
Thou my wonders wilt examine, — 
All the fecrets of my fcience 
Will be bared to give thee anfwer. 
Wherefore, thinkeft thou, the Circe 
Of thefe defert waftes they call me ? 
'Tis becaufe forbidden knowledge / 
{That fole law I leave untrampled) 
I, by application, reach to, — 
I, by mighty ftudies, mafter. 
By a breath from out my lips, 
Thou wilt fee the funlight blacken'd. 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 185 


Bien digo, la fombra foy, [Jparte. 
David \o dixo en un Verfo. 


Since in all its perfeft prime. 

Can I the bright noon-day darken ; 


Veras, a folo una linea, 


I may fay fo, lince a fhadow [Jfide. 


Que corran mis penfamientos. 


David calls me in the Pfalter.-— 


Defclavadas las Eftrellas 


Thou wilt fee that my mere thought. 


Del o6lavo Firmamento : 


Even my wifli in lilence wafted. 


y es verdad, pues tercer parte 


From the Heaven beyond the feventh 


[Jparte. 


Will the mighty liars unfaften. 


De elks aparte del Cielo. 


True, a third of Heaven's bright hofl 


La Nigromancia veras 


[Jftde. 


Executada, faliendo. 


Thus my primal fall brought after. — 


A mi conjuro obedientes. 


Necromancy fhalt thou fee. 


De fus fepulcros los muertos. 


Tried and tefted to the fartheft ; — 


Cadaver es el que peca, \_Aparte. 
Pues me obedece, no miento. 


So that, yielding to my fpells, 

From their graves the dead will an- 


La grande Chiromancia 


fwer : — 


Veras, quando en vivo fuego, 


Yes; for dead in iin is he [Afide. 


En los papeles del humo 


Who doth yield to my advances. — 


Caraderes de luz leo. 


Pyromancy, too, will fhow thee 


i Que fuego no enciendo yo ? 

\_Aparte. 


How upon the red flames' fparkles. 
How upon the curling fmoke-wreaths. 


No es engano, pues le enciendo. 


Knowledge there infcribed I gather : 


Titubear veras caducos 


I deceive not here — the fire [JJide. 


Uno, y otro Polo, haciendo 


Lit by me doth ever crackle. — 


Que defplomados fe caygan 
Sobre todo el Univerfo. 


Thou wilt fee the poles of Heaven 
Tremble at my dread commandments. 


No fera la vez primera, [Jparte. 


As if down about to fall 


Que yo eftremeci fu Imperio. 


On the world's difturbed axes : — 


El idioma de las aves 


Not the firft time will it be [Jftde. 


Veras, que yo fola entiendo, 


That its kingdom I have fliaken. — 


Siendo el canto vaticinio. 


All the language of the birds 


Y fiendo el graznido aguero. 


Wilt thou learn, by me fole mafter'd — 


De las flores te leera 
Eftos efcritos quadernos. 


Both their fweet prophetic warble 
And their hariher augural cackle. 


Donde la naturaleza 


On the flowers, too, wilt thou read, 


Efcrivio raros myfterios. 


As upon illumined parchment. 


A todas horas tendras 


Written charadlers revealing 


Dulces muficas, oyendo 


Nature's myfteries and marvels. 


Suaves cantos de las aves. 


Every moment wilt thou have 



i86 LOS ENCANTOS 


DE LA CULPA. 


De los hombres dulces verfos. 


Sweeteft ftrains to greet and glad thee, — 


Sabrofifimos manjares 


Now the nightingale's lone ditty. 


Te ferviran con affeo 


Now the poet's lovelier anthem. 


Tal, que el Olfato, y el Guflo 


Food the daintieft fhall be fpread 


Se eften lifongeando a un tiempo. 


For thee with fuch nice exadnefs. 


La vifla divertiras 


So that fmell and tafte together 


En effos jardines bellos. 


Shall at once thy fenfes flatter. 


Que Ton nueftros paraifos. 


Thy enraptured light fliall revel 


De varias delicias llenos. 


In thefe fweet delicious gardens. 


Dormiras en regalada 


Which to us are bowers of Eden, 


Cama, donde el Tadlo atento 


Full of every form of gladnefs. 


A tu defcanfo, en mullidas 


In a foft bed fhalt thou fleep. 


Floresy tendra blando lecho. 


Where the Touch, that looketh after 


A todas horas tendras 


Thy repofe, on downieft flower-leaves 


Damas, que te eften firviendo. 


Shall outfpread thy pleafant pallet. 


Que, como foy en comun 


Lovely ladies every hour 


La Culpa, conmigo tengo 


Shall their various fervice grant thee. 


y en particular a todas 


Whom, as Sin fupreme, I keep 


Las que fe precian de ferlo. 


Here at once my flaves and partners. 


[Va dexando caer el Hombre las 


Specially all thofe who are 


Flores del Ramillete poco a poco. 


To my fervice felf-attraded. 


Y fobre todo tendras 


\_During the latter part of this ad- 


Los regalos de mi pecho. 


drefsy the Man has let fall the 


Las caricias de mis brazos. 


flowers of his nofegay one by one. 


Los alhagos de mi afedlo. 


But, above all other joys, 


Las finezas de mi amor. 


Wilt thou have my heart's free largefs, 


La verdad de mi defeo. 


The delight of my embraces, 


La atencian de mi alvedrio. 


The fweet proof of my attachment. 


De mi vida el rendimiento : 


All the fondnefs of my love. 


Y finalmentCy delicias. 


All the truth delire implanteth. 


Guftos, regalos, contentos. 


The devotion of my will ; 


Placeres, dichas, favores. 


Of my life the fweet enthralment : 


Muficas, bayles, y juegos. 


In a word, delicious joys, 




Raptures, ravifhments, entrancements. 




Pleafures, bliffes, fondeft favours — 




Sports and plays, and fongs and dances. 


El Hombre [apart e). 


The Man [afide). 


No fe que he de refponder. 


Ah ! I know not what to fay ! 


Porque divertido, oyendo 


Ah ! I know not what to anfwer ! 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 



187 



La retorica fiiave 
De ill voz, fui defhaciendo 
El Ramo de las Virtudes, 
Que defperdiciadas veo, 
Y ajadas entre mis manos ; 
I Pero que mucho, li advierto. 
Que para que elk me hablaffe 
Aparte mi Entendimiento ? 
Sin el hablare. Gallarda 
Circe, a tus voces atento, 
De mi me olvido, y ya folo 
De tu hermofura me acuerdo. 
A tus Palacios me guia, 
Porque fer tu huefped quiero 
Defde oy, eftimando humilde 
Tan cortefes cumplimientos. 



La Culpa. 
Venci. La Mulica buelva 
A repetir fus acentos ; 
Y efTos gallardos Palacios, 
Que eftan en el duro centro 
Del Monte, fus puertas abran. 
Que va gran huefped a ellos. 
\_Defcubrefe un Palacio muy vifiofo. 
El Oido 
Al Entendimiento aguarda 
Antes, Seiior, que entres dentro, 
Porque fepas donde eftas. 

El Hombre. 
Para que ? pues es tan cierto 
Que no entrara, li fupiera 
(Ay de mi !) mi Entendimiento. 

El Gujlo. 
Dices bien, vamos fin el ; 
I Para que aca le queremos. 
Que es un Miniftro canfado. 



Since, oblivious of myitXIy 
Liftening to her fweet-toned accents, 
I have been, ah me ! deftroying 
All the beauty oi this branchlet. 
Wither'd in my hand it lies. 
At my feet its leaves lie fcatter'd. 
But what wonder, when I think. 
In my Underftanding's abfence 
Has fhe fpoken to me thus ? 
Thus without him, then, I anfwer : — 
Circe fair, in mute attention 
I unto thy fweet voice hearken. 
Self-forgetting, loll in dreaming. 
By thy wondrous beauty dazzled. 
Lead me to thy long'd-for palace ; 
As thy guell, thy flave command me ; 
Let my humble acquiefcence 
For thy courtefy thus thank thee. 

Sin. 
I have conquer'd ! — once again, 
Mufic, fing your fweetell accents. 
And my beauteous palace home. 
Which amid thefe mountains llandeth. 
Open wide your dazzhng doors 
For the great gueft who advanceth. 

\_A magnificent palace appears. 
J'he Hearing. 
Oh ! my lord, before thou goell 
Where thou know'll not what may 

happen. 
Here await thy Underllanding. 

The Man. 
Wherefore? fmce if thus I adled. 
Ah ! I know to well that he 
Ne'er would fandion my advances. 

The Tafie. 
Right ! without him let us go : — 
What's the ufe of being faddled 
With a pig and pleafure-hating 



i88 LOS ENCANTOS 


DE LA CULPA. 


Todo limpio, y nada puerco ? 


Cool cantankerous old carper ? — 


Mufica. 


The Mufic. 


En hora dichofa venga 


Happy, happy be the hour 


A eftos jardines amenos 


That to thefe delicious gardens 


El Peregrine del Mar, 


Comes the Pilgrim of the fea 


Donde halle feguro puerto. 


In a fafe port happily landed ! 


Fanfe, dadas las manoSf y jale el 


Exeunt all hand in hand. The Under- 


Entendimiento. 


standing enters from the oppojite 




fide. 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underfianding. 


Hombre, efpera, efcucha, aguarda. 


Hear ! weak Man, oh ! liften ! flay ! 


No entres en effe fobervio 


Enter not that pride-built caflle, 


Alcazar, porque no fabes 


Since thou knowefl not the quickfands 


Los peligros que eftan dentro. 


On whofe dangerous top it flandeth : 


Mas ay de mi ! con las voces. 


But, ah me ! their flattering fongs 


Que le han tenido fufpenfo. 


Keep his fenfes fo abflrafted. 


No me oye : j Que bien (ay trifle !) 


That he hears me not ! How foon 


Se echa de ver, pues pudieron 


Can it now be feen, O fadnefs ! 


Los alhagos de la Culpa, 


That the luftful lures of fin. 


Los hechizos, y venenos 


That her philtres and enchantments 


Moverle, que me tenia 


Have the power to overwhelm him 


Retirado ! porque es cierto 


In his Underflanding's abfence, 


Que a tenerme a mi configo. 


Since with me, he would not have 


No fe rindiera tan prello. 


His confent fo freely granted. 


Sale la Penitencia. 


Enter Penance. 


La Penitencia. 


Penance. 


\ Entendimiento, que voces 


Why thefe outcries, Underfianding, 


Son eftas que das al viento ? 


That thou to the winds impartefl? 


El Entendimiento, 


The Underfianding. 


Laftimas fon de aver dado 


Wailings are they for difcharging 


Mala cuenta de un fugeto 


Towards my human ward fo badly 


Que Dios me entrego : Oy el Hombre 


Duties trufled me by God. 


Me ha dexado, de mi huyendo 


Man has left me, hath departed. 


Se ha entrado en t^z Palacio, 


Fled me but jull now, and enter'd 


Poblado de Encantamientos. 


This enchantment-peopled palace; 


Las Virtudes que adquirio. 


All the virtues which by thee 


Con un arrepentimiento 


Were to him repentant granted. 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 



Que tuvo, defperdiciadas 
En el ayre las encuentro. 
La Penitencia {jnira a las F lores). 
Pues yo las recogere, 
Guardandolas para el tiempo 
Que arrepentido me bufque, 
De fu culpa, y de fu yerro. 
El Entendimiento. 
Sin mi efta, que no eftuviera, 
Conmigo (ay de mi !) tan ciego. 
Que fe olvidara de ti. 

La Penitencia. 
Darte yo una induftria quiero. 
Para facarle de aqueffe 
Encanto ; toca en fu pecho 
Al arma, pues efcuchando 
Efte belicofo eftruendo, 
(Haciendole de si mifmo 
Siempre mortales acuerdos) 
Veras, que con tal temor 
Creera advertido, y atento 
A fu Entendimiento, donde 
Ella fm Entendimiento. 

Salen la Culpa, j el Hombre, y los 
Sentidos, j canta la Miifica. 

La Miifica. 
Compitiendo con las felvas, 
Donde las flores madrugan, 
Los paxaros en el viento 
Forman Abriles de plumas. 

La Culpa. 
Ven por aqueftos jardines, 
Adonde critica, y culta 
La naturaleza, ha hecho. 



As I enter'd here, I found 

By the wanton breezes fcatter'd. 

Penance {^feeing them on the ground). 
I fhall re-colle6l them all. 
And preferve them 'till he alk me 
For them once again, when he 
Feels repentant for his lapfes. 
The JJnderfianding. 
Ah ! without me is he now ! 
With me never had fuch hardnefs 
Steel'd his heart forgetting thee ! 

Penance. 
I fhall Ihow thee in what manner 
Thou may'ft yet perchance releafe him 
From the chains of this enchantment. 
Touch the key-note of his foul, — 
Sound to arms ! the martial clatter 
(For of death and deathfullell omens 
Ever breathes the call to battle !) 
Soon will wake him from the ftupor 
That his memory now doth darken : — 
Then he will attend to thee. 
Now without thee he advanceth. 

Enter Sin, the Man, and the Senses ; 
the Mufic fings. 

The Muftc. 
With the bloffom'd boughs competing. 
When the fweet flowers rife from 

flumber,* 
Birds an April of the air 
Fafhion with their painted plumage. 

Sin. 
Come unto thefe gardens fair. 
Where rich Nature's careful culture 
With her beds and myrtle buds 



* In this fcene the afonante vowels of the original are, «, a: in the tranflation, k, £■, or their 
equivalents in found, are ufed. 



190 LOS ENCANTOS 


DE LA CULPA. 


Entre jardines, y murtas. 


Maketh fuch a dazzling muller. 


Alardes de fus primores. 


That united they appear 


Pues fu varia compoftura 


Like a fair collegiate ftrufture, 


Academia es, donde el Mayo 


Whither comes the young-eyed May, 


De un ano para otro eftudia. 


Year by year, an eager ftudent. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Tan hermofa es efta eftancia. 


Yes, fo lovely is this place. 


Que el mifmo Sol que la alumbra. 


That the fun that flames refulgent 


Su esfera dexara, a precio 


Would his own bright fphere abandon 


De que fuera esfera fuya. 


For the fairer flower-fphere under ; 


Digalo el Cielo, que al ver 


And the Heavens, the flowers beholding 


Las flores que la dibujan. 


Radiant in their rofy clufters. 


Arrebolo las Ellrellas, 


Would paint red their own pale flars. 


Porque compitan las unas 


That with thefe they might be number'd. 


Con las otras : Y affi, eilan 


Thus it is from evening's grey 


Defde la tiniebla obfcura, 


To the morn's glad gleams of umber. 


Hafta la luciente Aurora, 


Thefe cerulean liars appear. 


Effas Eftrellas ceruleas. 


Twinkling each with trembling luftre, 


Donde en brazos de la noche 


When within the arms of Night 


Duermen las esferas mudas. 


Sleep the filent fpheres of Summer, 


El, y Miifica. 


He and the Mujlc together. 


Compitiendo con las felvas. 


With the bloflbm'd boughs competing. 


Donde las flores madrugan. 


When the fweet flowers rife from flum- 
ber. 

Sin. 


La Culpa. 


Todo el jardin es delicias ; 


All the garden is one joy : 


No ay planta, no ay hoja alguna. 


Not a plant that here hath budded, 


Que verde aroma, los mas 


Not a leaf but breathes from out it 


Blandos perfumes no fupla. 


Fragrance that no tongue can utter : 


Y porque Villa, y Olfato 


And that Sight and Smell ftiould boaft 


La pompa no fe atribuyan 


not, 


Para si folos, objetos 


That this Eden hath refulted 


Son del Oido las puras 


Solely from their aidance, lift ! 


Fuentes, fiendo en el ruido. 


Limpid fountains, leap and bubble. 


Com pas que a coros fe efcucha. 


Breaking with melodious beat 


Apacibles porque parlan. 


Songs whofe never-ceafing burden 


Y alegres porque murmuran. 


Seemeth fad when moft they laugh. 


Embidiofo todo viento, 


Mirthful moft when moft they murmur. 


Al ver por la tierra, en una 


And the envious Nymph of Air, 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 191 


Primavera folamente. 


Seeing earth fo richly ftudded 


Tantas Primaveras juntas, 


With the flovi^ers of many fprings, 


De otras flores fe ha poblado. 


Join'd in this that is the youngeft. 


Que aladas fus golfos furcan. 


Has unto her azure plains 


Siendo ramilletes vivos : 


Flowers of other kinds conduced. 


Y affi, quanto entre efta fuma 


Which, upborn on myriad wings. 


Deydad, las flores, y fuentes 


Living nofegays float and flutter. 


De la tierra, con induftria. 


And as earth's young goddefs fair 


Paxaros forman de rofas. 


Withherflowers and founts conftrudleth 


Por igualar fu hermofura : 


Spring's fweet Paradife below. 




So the other in her upper 




Beauteous realm of birds makes rofes 




Rivalling the rich ones under : 


E//a,y Miifica, 


She and the Mufiic together. 


Los paxaros en el viento 


Birds an April of the air 


Forman Abriles de plumas. 


Fafliion with their painted plumage. 


La Mil fie a. 


The Mufiu. 


De una belleza engaiiados. 


By her lovelinefs deceived. 


Por Aurora la faludan. 


For Aurora they falute her. 


Y viendo fus bellos ojos. 


And beholding her bright eyes. 


Quedan vanos de fu culpa. 


Love the fweet miftake they fufFer. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Toda effa belleza, toda 


All this fair variety. 


ElTa varia compollura 


All this lovelinefs that furgeth 


De vientos, y quadros, que 


Up from billowy buds of bloom. 


Emulos flempre fe ufurpan 


By the wandering zephyrs ruffled, 


La alabanza, dignamente 


All this realm of fpring, whofe crown 


Sus trofeos aflegura. 


Earth and Iky in turn ufurpeth. 


Quando al faludar tu villa 


When it looks upon thy face, 


A todas horas te juzga 


Every moment doth it judge thee 


Aurora de ellas Montaiias, 


The Aurora of thefe hills. 


Haciendo que fe confundan 


Blending hours that erft were funder'd. 


En los tormentos del dia 


Streaking in the noontide's glow 


Salpicadas las purpureas 


All the leaves with rofeate purple. 


Hojas ; pues aunque haya Aves, 


So that birds and flowers that drank 


Y flores del dia en la cuna. 


Morning's pearly tears unnumber'd 


Bebiendo a la Aurora el llanto. 


Round the cradle of the day. 


Que cendales de oro enjuga. 


Tears that from her eyes ftie bruflies 


El verte fegunda vez. 


With the golden-threaded clouds. 



192 LOS ENCANTOS 


^ DE LA CULPA. 


Con nueva falva fegunda : 


Seeing on the horizon under 




Thee arife a fecond time. 




Hail thee with new matin mufic ; 


El, y Mufica. 


He and the Mufic together. 


De tu belleza engafiados 


By thy lovelinefs deceived 


Por Aurora la faludan. 


For Aurora they falute thee. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Culpa fuera de las aves. 


This were wrong in bird and flower. 


Y las flores, porque nunca 


Bird and flower are both excuielefs 


Para equivocar deydades 


For confounding goddefl"es. 


Hallar pudieran difculpa. 


Whom their feparate fliapes have fun- 




der'd. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Si es culpa, 6 acierto, no 


If 'tis right or no, the point 


Es jufto que yo lo arguya ; 


It were wrong I argued further. 


Pero bien fe, que mi amor 


This though know I well, my love 


Oy de fu parte affegura ; 


Is o{ one thing well afllired, — 


Que aunque culpa decir fea. 


That, although 'twere wrong to fay 


Que por Aurora te anuncian 


That the flowers and birds misjudge thee 


Flores, y aves ; ni las aves. 


For Aurora, bird and flower 


Ni las flores fe difculpan 


Would not wifti to be excused 


De effa culpa, porque antes 


For that fault, flnce they, I feel. 


Se, que con caufa mas jufta. 


Afting with impulfive juftnefs — 


EKy Mufica. 


He and the Mufic together. 


En viendo tus bellos ojos, 


In beholding thy bright eyes. 


Quedan vanos de fu culpa. 


Love the fweet miftake they fuiFer. 


El Gufio. 


The Tafie. 


Ya que me ha tocado a mi, 


Now fince it devolves on me 


(Que en efefto foy la Gula) 


(I who am thy Talle), the duty 


Preveniros las viandas. 


Of providing for thy need 


En cuya alegre dulzura. 


Viands cull'd from out the number \ 


Quanto corre, nada, y buela 


Of the things that fwim or fly, \ 


Regiftro entre mil dulzuras 


Or pofl^efs the earth's green furface, ' 


Su fabor, defnudo ya 


'Mid whofe thoufand varied forms. 


De piel, de efcama, y de pluma. 


Stript of Ikin, of fcale, and plumage. 


Mirad adonde quereis 


I their hidden favours feize, — 


Comer oy. 


Think where art thou to have fupper ? ; 


La Lifonja. 


Flattery. 


Sea con una 


Here, with all due fervice fair. 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 193 


Ceremonia lifongera. 


Let it on the fpot be ulher'd. 


EI Gujio, 


Tl^e Tap. 


La Lifonja es muy aftuta. 


What a clever lafs is this ! 


Plies que fa be fembrar mefas 


Since with ikill as fharp as fudden 


Tan Candidas, y purpureas. 


Tables o'er the ground fhe fcatters 




Gleaming all with plate and purple. 


Salepor debaxo del Tablado una Mefa 


A table fumptuoup provided with viands 


con muchas viandas, y fientafe la 


rifes from beneath. Sin and Ulysses 


CuLPA,_)j ULisEs,_y los demdsfirven. 


place them/elves at the table, the Sen- 


y los Sentidos /ej^ent an en elfuelo. 


ses on the ground: all are waited on 




by the others. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Sientate, y todos 


Sit, Ulyfles, at my fide : — 


Os fentad en la verdura 


On the foft and verdurous turf here 


De eflas flores. 


Let the reft recline. 


La Lafchna. 


Voluptuoufnefs, 


Pues yo quiero 


Since I 


Que no todas le atribuyan 


Would not that our gueft Ihould number 


Las finezas, lin que a mi 


Every courtefy as thine. 


El Huefped me deba una. 


One on my part thou wilt fuiFer : 


Aquella letra cantad. 


Sing that little canzonet 


Que yo hice. 


Made by me. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Pues li es tuya 


Its gentle burden 


Sera amorofa. 


Muft be love, if thine it be. 


La Lajciv'ia. 


Voluptuoufnefs. 


Si es. 


So it is. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


No ay Dama aqui, que no acuda 


Each Senfe is fuited 


A un Sentido. 


With a feparate lady. 


El Gup. 


The Tap. 


Si fenor. 


Yes; 


Pero vidlor. 


But there's one deferves a bumper. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Quien ? 


Who is fhe? 


El Gup. 


The Tap. 


U Gula. 


Intemperance. 



194 LOS ENCANTOS 


DE LA CULPA. 


La Mufica. 


The Mufu. 


Si quereis gozar florida 


Wouldft thou, Man, to rapture give 


Edad entre dulce fuerte. 


Life's young hours that flower and fly. 


Olvidate de la muerte. 


Oh ! forget that thou mull die ! 


Y acuerdate de la vida. 


And but think that thou doft live ! 


Tocan Caxas, y alborotanfe todos, y 


A found of drums and voices is heard 


dicen dentro el Entendimiento, y 


from within: all fart with furprife. 


la Penitencia. 


The Understanding and Penance 




anfwer from within. 


La Culpa. 


Sin, 


No canteis mas ; { que atrevida 


Ceafe the fong ! What voice doth ftrive 


Voz nueftros guftos divierte ? 


Thus to mar our joy thereby ? 


El Entendimiento. 


The Under ft anding. 


Ulifes, Capitan fuerte, 


Valiant foldier ! from on high 


Si quieres dicha crecida. 


Wouldft thou lafting blifs receive ? 


La Penitencia, 


Penance. 


Olvidate de la vida. 


Oh ! forget that thou doft live ! 


El Entendimiento, 


The Underft anding. 


Y acuerdate de la muerte. 


And remember thou muft die ! 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


\ Quien, con tanto atrevimiento. 


Who is this whofe bold voice breaketh 


Trueca el gufto en confufion ? 


Rudely on my ftartled ear ? 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Circe, las que efcuchas fon 


'Tis my inner voice you hear — 


Voces de mi Entendimiento, 


'Tis my Underftanding fpeaketh ; 


El me ha llamado, e intento 


Him my anfwering confcience feeketh. 


Refponderle. 




La Culpa. 


Sin. 


De el te olvida. 


Heed him not, no anfwer give. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Suelta. 


L^l me go. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Es accion atrevida. 


Thou goeft to grieve. 


Cantad, porque no fe aflbmbre 


Sing once more, left Man fliould hear 


De oir aquella voz el Hombre. 


That myfterious voice fevere. 


La Mufica. 


The Mufu. 


Acuerdate de la vida. 


Oh ! remember thou doft live ! 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN, 195 


E/ Ho7nbre. 


The Man. 


Si hare, que bien larga es : 


Be it fo : the days extend ; 


Y defpues tendre lagar 


Life is long and full of joy : — 


Para fentir, y llorar. 


For contrition and annoy 


Pues me baftara defpues : 


Time enough ere comes the end. 


A tus brazos buelvo, pues. 


To thine arms, then, deareft friend. 


Dulce dueiio. 


To thine arms once more I fly. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Feliz fuerte ! 


Happy fate ! 


El Hombre, 


The Man. 


Tu hermufura me divierte ; 


Felicity 


Contigo ufano me nombre ; 


Is it but thy face to fee : 


No quiero mas dicha. 


Greater bJifs there cannot be. 


El Entendimiento. 


The Vnderftanding. 


Hombre, 


Man ! remember thou muft die ! 


Acuerdate de la muerte. 


{Drums found. 


[Suena Caxa, 




El Hombre. 


The Man. 


J Fuerza es que me acuerde (ay triile !) 


Oh! the woe, to be compeli'd 


Quando mi afeilo fe mueve 


This to think of even in blifs — 


De que es tan caduca, y breve. 


Rapture, oh ! how fleet it is. 


Que en un inftante conlifte ! 


Flying ere it fcarce is held : — 


Entendimiento, que hicille 


Underfl:anding mine, impell'd 


En mi tal efefto, advierte, 


By thy low voice whifpering nigh,— 


Que ya voy a obedecerte. 


See ! at thy beheft I fly ! 


La Culpa, 


Sin. 


Vueftra voz fu paffo impida. 


Song, arreft the fugitive. 


La Mufica. 


The Mufic. 


Acuerdate de la vida. 


Oh ! remember thou doft live ! 


El Entendimiento. 


The Vnderftanding. 


Acuerdate de la muerte. 


Oh ! remember thou muft die ! 


\Suena Caxa. 


{Drums found. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Aqui me eftan alhagando 


Here enjoyment round me draws 


Gullo, placer, y contento. 


Nets of blifs, whofe woof enthrals me : 


Quando alii mi Entendimiento 


There my Underftanding calls me 


Al arma me ella tocando. 


To comply with valour's laws. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Que dudas ? 


Canft thou waver ? 



J96 LOS ENCANTOS 


DE LA CULPA. 


EI Entendimiento. 


The Underftanding. 


Que eftas penfando? 


Canft thou paufe ? 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


No de effa voz confundida 


Oh ! no more attention give 


Tu memoria elle afligida. 


To that voice, but blifs receive ! 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underftanding. 


En aquefte encanto advierte : 


Think, 'mid all this witchery — 


Acuerdate de la muerte. 


Think that thou art doom'd to die. 


La Mufica. 


The Mufic. 


Acuerdate de la vida. 


Only think that thou doft live. 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


En dos mitades eftoy 


Oh ! to which, torn heart, give way — 


Partido, (paflion tyrana !) 


Prefent blifs or future forrow. 


Entre el horror de manana, . 


Or the anguifh of to-morrow. 


A la Ventura de oy ; 


Or the rapture of to-day ? — 


A aquel figo, y a efte voy ; 


This I follow, that obey. 


Y uno, y otro en mal tan fuerte. 


Wifh the gladnefs, yet would fly 


O me aflige, 6 me divierte : 


All the grief that comes thereby : — 


I Qual ha de fer preferida 


Oh ! to which the preference give ? — 


De mis glorias ? 


Which for my joy ? 


La Mufica. 


The Muftc. 


Vida, vida. 


That thou doft live !— 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


De mis penas ? 


Which for my pain ? 


El Entendimiento. 


The Under/landing. 


Muerte, muerte. 


That thou muft die !— 


Y aunque me la den a mi \_Sale. 


Yes ; and though that fate be mine. 


Los encantos de efta iiera. 


\_He enters. 


He de entrar, porque no fuera 


By this monfter's forceries flain. 


Entendimiento, li aqui 


Here I enter : iince 'tis plain. 


Temiera morir : ^- affi. 


I were not myfelf, or thine 


Ulifes, te has olvidado 


God-given guide, fhould I refign 


De ti mifmo ? i Affi entregado 


Death itfelf defending thee : 


A unos placeres fingidos, 


Haft thou loft all memory 


Que Hn mi, y con tus fentidos 


Of thyfelf? that thus, Ulyffes, 


Aqui vives enganado ? 


Thou wouldft live in phantom blifies 




Here with thy fenfes, without 7ne ? 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


I Eftara (dime) mejor. 


Were it better, then, that he. 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 197 


Creido de tu prudencia. 


Following thy advice, fhould go. 


AJla con ]a Penitencia, 


Penance led, where all is woe. 


Adonde todo es horror. 


All is grief and mifery. 


Todo trifleza, j pavor. 


Than remain contentedly 


Que aqui, donde le divierte 


Here, where on his every figh 


Tanta gloria ? 


Pleafure waits ? 


E/ Entendi7niento, 


The XJnderfianding. 


Si, fi advierte. 


Undoubtedly, 


Que aquefta gloria es fingida. 


Y'i he knows Ihe nought can give. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Cantad, cantad. 


Sing! ling! 


La Miifica, 


The Mufic. 


Vida, vida. 


'Tis fweet to live ! 


El Entendimiento. 


The TJnderftanding. 


Tocad, tocad : muerte, muerte. 


Peal ! peal ! Man needs muft die ! 


El Hombre. 


i:he Man. 


Dices bien, a ti te creen 


True ! oh true 1 my ftar to thee 


Los influxos de mi eilrella. 


Yields, oh voice 1 that fpeaks within. 


La Culpa, 


Sin. 


Pues dexafme ? 


Canft thou leave me ? 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


I Ay Culpa bella. 


Beauteous Sin, 


Que tu tambien dices bien ? 


Ah ! thy voice, too, moveth me. 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underjlanding. 


Valor mis voces te den. 


May my voice thy foul's ftrength be ! 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Muevate el verme rendida. 


May my tears thy love revive ! 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underjlanding. 


Nada el ieguirme te impida : 


Follow me, be ftrong and Ilrive ; 


Tocad. 


Drums, rebeat. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Cantad. 


Sing fweet! 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


Pena fuerte ! 


I try 




Suffering's depths ! 


La Mufica. 


The Mufic. 


Vida, vida. 


To live ! 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underfianding. 


Muerte, muerte. 


To die ! 



198 LOS ENCANTOS 


DE LA CULPA. 


{Dentro La Penitencia), 


Penance {within^ 


Muerte, muerte. 


To die ! to die ! 


La Mujica, 


The Mufic. 


Vida, vida. 


To live ! to live ! 


El Entendimiento. 


The Vnderjlanding. 


Efte es bien perecedero. 


Life is but a dying day. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Aquella es pena cruel. 


Death, a pang that llrikes thee down. 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underjlanding. 


Por effo efpera laurel. 


But it gives the laurel crown. 


La Culpa, 


Sin. 


Goza tu vida primero. 


Life enjoy though, while you may. 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underjlanding. 


Mira que es encanto fiero. 


Life's a dream that fades away. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Mira que es tormento fuerte. 


Death's a pain that all would fly. 


El Entendimiento. 


The Underjlanding. 


En que eres mortal advierte. 


Think thy final hour draws nigh. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


No te acuerdes de elTo, no. 


Think not fo till life be done. 


La Mujica. 


The Mujtc. 


Vida. 


Life! 


La Penitencia, 


Penance {within). 


Muerte. 


Death ! 


Los dos. 


The two. 


Quien vencio? 


Say which has won ? 


El Hombre. 


The Man. 


La memoria de la muerte. 


The remembrance I muft die. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


I Que importa que aya vencido. 


What imports it thus the gaining 


Si efcaparte no podras 


Barren vidlory, if thou art 


De mi ? En mi poder eftas. 


Powerlefs to efcape my art ? 


Sin refervarte un fentido. 


Thou, with not a fenfe remaining : 


Las flores que avia texido 


Since the potent flowers difdaining. 


La Penitencia, que eran 


Woven for thee by Heaven's hoft. 


Las virtudes que pudieran 


Which the hands of Penance gave thee. 


Salvarte, ya las perdifte. 


Virtues were they which could fave thee. 


Til mifmo las delhicifle ; 


Thou haft fcatter'd, thou haft loft ; 


I Pues que alivio de mi efperan 


Wherefore, therefore, canft thou boaft 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN, 



99 



Oy tus anfias ? 

E/ Entendimiento, 
No te de 
Aqueflb defconfianza. 
Ten en el Cielo efperanza. 
Que es columna de la Fe. 
Effas virtudes, yo fe. 
Que quando mas divertido 
Las avias efparcido, 
Para guardarlas llego 
A recogerlas .... 

La Culpa. 

Quien ? 

Sale la Penitencia. 
La Penitencia. 



Yo, 



Que el Arco de paz he fido. 
Que fi oy en Carro Triunfal 
Me llegas a. ver fentada, 
Subftituyendo Dofel 
De oro, de purpura, y nacar, 
Es, porque a triunfar de ti 
Vengo, que quando me llama 
Del hombre el Entendimiento, 
No puedo yo hacerle falta. 
Las virtudes, que lin el 
Defperdicio fu ignorancia, 
Yo recogi ; pues es cierto. 
Que li fe adquieren en Gracia, 
Siempre que buelva por ellas. 
En depofito las halla. 
Y para que el Hombre vea. 
Que folas a veneer baftan 
Tus Encantos, oy veras 
Todas aqueftas viandas. 



Thou art free from me to-day ? 

The Under/landing. 
Do not, therefore, Man, mirtruft thee, 
Hope in Heaven, to thattniYM^ thee — 
Hope, the Faith's bell prop and llay, 
All thofe virtues flown away, 
Scatter'd in thy wantonnefs — 
One, I know, doth hither prefs 
To reftore them ; from the iky 
Comes fhe hither now. 



Sin. 



Who? 



Penance enters. 
Penance. 



I, 



Erft who wore the rainbow's drefs : 

Who if in a car triumphal 

Thou to-day behold'ft me feated* 

'Neath a canopy, wherein 

Purple, pearl, and gold are blended, 

'Tis becaufe I come to triumph 

Over thee, for when foe ver 

Calleth me Man's Underftanding, 

Never is the call negleded. 

All the virtues which he fquander'd 

In his ignorance, demented, 

I have here re-gather'd, fince 

Certain 'tis that when prefented 

By the hand of Grace they've been. 

He who turneth back repentant 

Ever findeth them again. 

Safely guarded and preferved. 

And that Man may know that they 

Can alone thy forceries render 



* The metre in the original changes to afonante alternate vowel rhymes in «, a. 
have fubftituted correfponding ones in f, e. 



For thefe I 



200 LOS ENCANTOS 


DE LA CULPA. 


Del viento defvanecidas. 


Powerlefs, thou wilt now behold 


En humo, en polvo, y en nada, 


All the viands here collefted 


Moftrando con efte exemplo 


Vanifh into air, and leave 


Lo que Ton glorias humanas, 


Nought behind to tell their prefence : 


Pues el Manjar folamente. 


Showing thus how human glory 


Que es eterno, es el del alma : 


Is as falfe as evanefcent ; 


Elle es el Pan Soberano, 


Since the only food that lafteth 


Que veis ya fobre efla Tabia : 


Is the food for fouls intended — 


La Penitencia os le ofrece, 


Is the eternal Bread of Life 


Que fin ella (cofa es clara) 


Which now fills this table's centre. 


Que verle no merecia 


It is Penance that prefents it. 


El hombre con glorias tantas. 


Since without her (nought more certain ) 


Sentidos efto no es Pan, 


Man deferveth not to witnefs 


Sino mas noble fubftancia : 


So much glory manifefted. 


Carnc, y Sangre es, porque huyendo 


Yet, ye Senfes, 'tis not Bread, 


Las efpecies, que ai eftaban. 


But a fubftance moft tranfcendent : 


Los accidentes no mas 


It is Flefti and Blood ; becaufe. 


Quedaron en Hollia blanca. 


When the fubftance is dilTever'd 




From the fpecies, the White Hoft then 




But the accidents preferveth. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


I Como quieres que te crean 


How canft thou expeft to gain 


Los Sentidos con quien hablas. 


Credence from thy outraged Senfes, 


Si todos conoceran 


When they come to underftand 


Que los ofendes, y agravias ? 


How you wrong them and offend them ? 


I Llega, Olfato, llega a oler 


Smell, come here, and with thy fenfe 


Effe Pan : en el que hallas, 


Teft this bread, this fubftance, — tell me, 


Pan, 6 Carne ? 


Is it bread or flefti ? 


Fan llegando los Sentidos. 


7he Senses approach. 


El Olfato, 


The Smell. 


De Pan es 


Its fmell 


El olor. 


Is the fmell of bread. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


I Llega, que aguardas, 


Tafte, enter ; 


Gufto ? 


Try it thou. 


El Gup. 


- The Tafte. 


Efte gufto es de Pan. 


Its tafte is plainly 




That of bread. 



1 

THE SORCERIES OF SIN. 201 


La Culpa. 


1 
Sin. 


I Llega, Ta6lo, que te efpantas, 


Touch, come, why tremble ? 


Di \o que tocas ? 


Say what's this thou touchell ? 


El Taao. 


The Touch. 


Pan toco. 


Bread. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


I Villa, a ver que es lo que alcanzas ? 


Sight, declare what thou difcernell 




In this objed ? 


La Vifta. 


The Sight. 


Pan folamente. 


Bread alone. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Tu, Oido, 


Hearing, thou, too, break in pieces 


Rompe effa Forma, que llama 


This material, which, as flefh. 


Carne la Fe, y Penitencia, 


Faith proclaims, and Penance preacheth ; 


Y luego las defengana 


Let the fraftion, by its noife, 


Al ruido de la fraccion : 


Of their error undeceive them : 


I Que refpondes ? 


Say, is it fo ? 


El Oido. 


The Hearing. 


Culpa ingrata,- 


Ungrateful Sin, 


Aunque la fraccion fe efcucha 


Though the noife in truth refembles 


Ruido de Pan, cofa es clara. 


That of bread when broken, yet 


Que en fe de la Penitencia, 


Faith and Penance teach us better 


A quien digo que la Ilaman 


It is flelh, and what the'^ call it 


Carne, por Carne la creo. 


I believe : that Faith alTerteth 


Pues que ella lo diga bafta. 


Aught, is proof enough thereof. 


El Entendimie?ito. 


The Underftanding. 


Efla razon me cautiva. 


This one reafon brings contentment 




Unto me. 


La Penitencia. 


Penance. 


I Ea, Hombre, pues que aguardas ? 


Man ! why linger ? 


Cautivo tu Entendimiento 


Now that Hearing hath firm-fetter'd 


Efta ya de la Fe Santa 


To the Faith thy Underftanding, 


Por el Oido, a la Nave 


Quick, regain the faving veifel 


De la Iglelia Soberana 


Of the fovereign Church, and leave 


Buelve, y dexa de la Culpa 


Sin's fo briefly fweet excelles. 


Las delicias momentaneas. 


Thou, Ulyffes, Circe's Have, 


Ulifes cautivo ha fido 


Fly this falfe and fleeting revel. 


De ella Circe injulla, y falfa : 


Since, how great her power may be. 


Huye, pues, de fus encantos. 


Greater is the power of Heaven, 



202 LOS ENCJNTOS 


DE LA CULPA. 


Ya que ellos fecretos hallas 


And the true Jove's mightier magic 


En el Jupiter Divino, 


Will thy virtuous purpofe flrengthen. 


Quien fus encantos defliagan. 




E/ Hombre. 


The Man. 


Dices bien, Entendimiento, 


Yes, thou'rt right, O Underftanding ! 


De aqui mis Sentidos faca. 


Lead in fafety hence my Senfes. 


Todos. 


All. 


Vamos al Baxel, que aqui 


Let us to our fhip ; for here 


Todo es fombras, y fantafmas. 


All is fhadowy and unfettled. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


I Que importa, (ay de mi !) que 


What imports it — woe is me ! — 


importa. 


What imports it that my fceptre 


Que affi de mi poder falgas. 


Thus you feem to 'fcape from, lince 


Si mis Encantos fabran 


My enchantments will attend ye ? 


Seguirte por donde vayas ? 


I lliall roufe the waves to madnefs. 


Yo fabre alterar las ondas. 




La Penitencia. 


Penance. 


Y yo fabre ferenarlas. 


I fhall follow and appeafe them. 


Tocan Clarines, y dejcubrefe la Nave, y 


Trumpets peal. The Jhip is difcovered. 


todos fe met en dentro. 


and all go on board. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


I Tribulaciones no fon 


Does not Holy Writ compare 


En la Efcritura las aguas ? 


Waves with woes that life engenders ? 


Luego a padecer le llevas 


Thither then ye go to fuffer 


Trabajos, afanes, y anfias. 


Toils, difcomforts, and diftreifes. 


La Penitencia. 


Penance. 


Si ; pero ellos fon regalos. 


Yes, but thefe prove pleafures when 


Con que mas merito alcanza. 


They to greater favour lead them. 


Dentro todos. 


All {within). 


Buen viage, buen viage. 


Happy voyage ! happy voyage ! 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Aqueflas voces me matan. 


Oh ! with rage thefe cries overwhelm 


El Hombre. 


me I 

The Man. 


Circe cruel, pues que fupe 


Cruel Circe, now that all — 


Veneer prodigiofas Magias, 


All thy wondrous wiles have ended. 


Quedate, donde te firva 


Drag thy palace o'er thy head. 


De monumento tu Alcazar. 


As thy monument and emblem. 



THE SORCERIES OF SIN, 



203 



La Culpa. 
Ondas, que tanto Baxel 
Sufris Ibbre las efpaldas. 
En vueftros fenos de nieve 
Le dad fepulcro de plata. 

La Penitencia. 
Ondas Terenas, al blando 
Movimiento de las aguas, 
Porque vueftros pavimentos 
No fean montes, fino alcazar. 

La Culpa, 
Vientos que foplais del Norte 
No le faqueis de Trinacria, 
Y chocad, cafcado el pino. 
En aquellas penas altas. 
La Penitencia. 
Notos, que venis del Auftro, 
Soplad con fuaves auras, 
Porque haila el Puerto de Hoftia 
Oy a falvamento falga. 

El Entendimiento, 
Buen viage nos prometen 
Las feiias de la bonanza. 

La Culpa. 
Haced, vicios, que velamen 
Todo pedazos fe haga, 
y buelto el Barco, Tea tumba 
Con piramides, y jarcias. 

El Hombre. 
Haced, Virtudes, que rompa 
La quilla fuave, y blanda, 
Encrefpando las efpumas 
Vidrios de nieve, y de plata. 

Todos. 
Buen viage, buen viage. 
Que vientos, y ondas amaynan. 

El Hombre. 
Circe, poco tus Encantos 



Sin. 
Waves, that on your foam-white 

fhoulders 
Bear the weight of fuch a v^&\^ 
Give it fwift a lilver tomb 
In your bofom's fnowy centres. 

Penance. 
Halcyon waves, with filent fwell, 
Roll your waters fmooth and level ; 
Like the bright floor of a palace. 
Let your azure hills extend them. 

Sin. 
Winds, that from the black north blow. 
Waft it not to feas ferener. 
But upon Trinacrian rocks 
Dafh its broken hull to pieces. 

Penance. 
Airs, that float from fouthern fkies. 
Gently breathe with favouring breezes, 
That it may the happy haven 
Of the Hoft in fafety enter. 

The Under/landing. 
Friends, a profperous voyage promife 
All the ligns of fettled weather. 

Sin. 
Vices, tear the canvas down. 
Rend the rifled fails in pieces. 
Let the obelifcal mafl:s 
Make the hull a tomb refemble. 

The Man. 
Virtues, for its curved keel 
Make the fea-way fmooth and fettled. 
Send its prow fwift-gliding through 
Silvery foam, a fnow-fcaled ferpent. 

All. 
Happy voyage ! happy voyage ! 
Sing the winds and waves together. 

The Man. 
Circe, now thy forceries vile 



204 LOS ENCJNTOS 


^ DE LA CULPA. 


Flan podido, pues me faca 


Harm me not, fince from thy piefhes 


(Ay de mi !) la Iris Divina, 


Faith, the heavenly Iris, leads me 


Coronado de eiperanzas. 


With Hope's glory round my temples. 


La Penitencia. 


Penance. 


Circe, ya fu Entendimiento 


Circe, now that as his guide 


Va con el : poco las trazas 


See his Underftanding wendeth, 


De tu Magia te han valido. 


Little can thy forceries wound him. 


La Culpa. 


Sin. 


Llena eftoy de pena, y rabia : 


Rage and anguifh overwhelm me ! 


I Si yo foy vivora, como 


If I am a viper, fay 


No me rompo las entraiias ? 


Why, O heart ! doft thou not fever ? 


^- Si foy afpid, como oy 


If I am an afp, oh ! why 


Mi veneno no me mata ? 


Does not my own poifon end me ? 


Pedazos del corazon 


In my anguifh I will tear 


Me arrancare con mis anfias 


Out my heart in purple pieces 


Para tirarlos al Cielo : 


But to dafh them in Heaven's face. 


(• Mas a mi, que me acobarda ? 


Wherefore, though, fhould fear unnerve 


Si en la Nave de la Iglefia 


me? 


Huyes de mi, fabre darla 


I'i thou flieft from me thus 


Tormentas que la zozobren ; 


In the Church's faving velTel, 


Mas ay de mi ! que ya es vana 


Know, my ftorms can overwhelm it. 


Mi Ciencia, pues que la veo 


Idle boaft ! for all is ended, — 


Navegar con tal bonanza : 


All my fcience now is o'er. 


Falten todos mis Sentidos, 


Since the fhip fails on fo fteady : 


Pues que ya poder me falta. 


All my fenfes leave me too. 




Since my magic power hath left me ! 


[Suena Terremoto^ y la ruido Je 


[ The found of an earthquake is heard. 


bunde el Palacio. 


and the palace dif appears. 


Confundanfe los Palacios, 


Palaces fink down in ruin. 


Y bolviendofe montaiias 


And the dark hills that upheld them. 


Obfcuras, no viva en ellas 


Reappear in all their wildnefs — 


Sino yo, porque me faca 


I fole dweller in the defert : 


A quien encantado tuve 


For from me hath holy Penance 


La Penitencia Sagrada, 


Him releafed, whom charm'd I held 


En virtud de aquel Divino 


here. 


Manjar, que da por Vianda. 


By the virtue this divineft 




Bread, this heavenly food, poiTeiTes. 


Todos. 


All. 1 


A cuyo grande milagro 


Let this mightieft miracle 

i 



THE so:rceries of sin. 



205 



El Mundo mil Fieftas haga, 
Principalmente Madrid, 
Noble corazon de Efpana, 
Que en celebrar a Dios Fiefta 
Con la opinion fe Jevanta. 

Con efta repeticion, y al fon de las 
Chirimias,Je da Fin al Auto. 



Over all the world be feted. 
Specially within Madrid, 
City where Spain's proud heart fwelleth. 
Which, in honouring God's Body, 
Takes the foremoft place for ever. 

With a repetition of this, and to the 
found of clarions. The Auto Con- 
cludes. 




THE DEVOTION OF THE CROSS. 



FROM THE SPANISH OF CALDERON. 



INTRODUCTION. 




A Devocion de la Cruz was firft printed at Huefca, in 1634, 
in the twenty-eighth volume of the colle6tion devoted to 
the dramatic works of various authors.* In the Intro- 
du6tion to Love the Greateji Enchantment^ I have already 
defcribed this exceedingly rare colle61:ion, and enumerated 
the very few volumes of it that are now known to exift. The volume 
which contains La Devocion de la Cruz^ under the name oi La Cruz en 
la Sepultura^ contains alfo another of Calderon's dramas, Amor^ Honor y 
Poder^ under the lefs concife title of La Indujlr'ia contra el Poder^ y el 
Honor contra la Fuerza^ and both are ftrangely attributed to Lope de 
Vega. La Cruz en la Sepultura is defcribed as differing occafionally 
from La Devocion de la Cruz^ as ordinarily printed, and contains three 
chara6lers and one entire fcene which are not to be found in any of the 
editions of the drama publifhed under that title. The names I have 
introduced, between brackets, into the lift of Perfons reprefented^ and the 
fceney fimilarly marked, I have tranflated at the proper place. Con- 
fidering the power exhibited in this "wonderful and terrible drama," as 

* Parte Feintey Ocho de Comedias de Varios Autores. En Huefca, por Pedro Blufon, 
impi-efor de la Univerfidad, ano de 1634. A cofta de Pedro Efcuer, mercader de libros. 
Senor Hartzenbufch mentions his having feen La Cruz en la Sepultura printed as a 
feparate play, but without date, place, or name of printer. See his Prologo, 1. 1. p. xv. 
and his lift of Ediciones Confultadas, t. iv. pp. 654. and 659. 



£ £ 



\ ~ 

2IO THE DEFOTION OF THE CROSS. 

it has been well called by a diftinguiflied living writer,* and the celebrity 
which it has obtained in foreign countries, moft readers will be furprifed 
to learn that it was one of the earlieft productions of Calderon , written 
probably during his refidence at the Univerfity of Salamanca, which he 
left at nineteen, but certainly, as it is ftated, before 1620, when he had 
only completed his twentieth year.f Like moft young dramatic writers, 
he appears to have freely made ufe of the labours of his predeceflbrs ; 
and the following dramas are fuppofed to have had very confiderable 
influence upon him, both in the conception and working out of The De- 
votion of the Crofs. The firft of thefe is La Fundacion de la Orden de la 
nuejira Senora de la Merced^ by the Canon Tarrega, which is given in 
the exceedingly fcarce volume of Valencian Dramatifts, publifhed at 
Valencia in 16 16, a copy of which I poflefs.J Another is Tirfo de 
Molina's El Condenado por Defconfiadoy the Enrico of which fmgularly 
refembles, both in his crimes and his love of relating them,§ the Eufebio 
of The Devotion of the Crofs ^ the Ludovico Enio of The Purgatory of St. 
Patrick, and other of Calderon's heroes of a fimilar ftamp, Mira de 
Mefcua's El Efclavo del Demonio is, however, the play to which Calderon 

* The Rev. Chenevix Trench, Dean of Weftminfter. See his Life''s a Dream, &c. 
p. 69. London, 1856. 

f " La De'vocion de la Cruz. Efcrlta antes del ano 1620, cenfurada ya para la Im- 
prefionen 3 de Abrildei633." SeeCoRRECCiONES attheendof Coz«^^/^jdeALARCON; 
Madrid, 1852. 

X Norte de la Poejia Efpanola, Sec. Ano 1616 j con privilegio. Imprefo en Valen- 
cia ; en la Imprefion de Felipe Mey. This and a preceding volume, Doce Comedias 
famofas de cuatro Poet as naturales de la injigney coronado Ciudadde Valencia , ano 1609, 
are among the fcarceft of Spanifh books, no copy being known to exift in any of the 
public or private libraries of Madrid, or perhaps of all Spain, as Senor Ramon de 
Mefoneros Romanos fays, except that in the library of the Queen at Madrid, from 
which he has made his extracts in the firft volume of his Dramaticos Contemporaneos a 
Lope de Vega 5 Madrid, 1857. See his Difcurfo Preliminary pp. xii. and xxi. 

§ See Comedias Efcogidas de Fray Gabriel Tellez (el Maeftro Tirfo de Molina) 5 
-Madrid, 1850, p. 189. 



INTRODUCTION, 211 

is more diredlly indebted, he having not only imitated the general adlion of 
that drama, but having transferred, according to Tieck, feveral pafTages 
of it, almoft verbatim, to his own pages.* The Devotion of the Crofs has 
been admirably tranflated into German by Auguft Wilhelm von Schlegel, 
as has alfo El Mayor Encanto Amor^ of which, in the preceding pages, a 
tranflation has been given. In Englifti and French literature few writers 
have ever referred to Calderon without praifmg the poetical power and 
beauty of this drama, and condemning it as " the very fublime of anti- 
nomianifm." Like many other celebrated literary works, however, it 
has been more frequently referred to than read, and many writers have, 
either through careleflhefs or wilful hoftility, needlefsly mifreprefented 
and exaggerated its defe6ts.t Among critics who feem to have been 
a6luated by the latter fpirit muft be placed Sifmondi, whofe analyfis of 
The Devotion of the Crofs is more than ufually inaccurate and unfair. 
One would think that there are crimes enough, either referred to or 
committed, in this drama, without the neceflity of adding to them ; and 
yet, by diredl: aflertion and infmuation, he leaves on the mind of the 
reader a horrible impreflion of the almoft unutterable criminality of the 
two principal chara6lers, which, if true, would of courfe render it unfit 
to be read, ena6ted, and, I need fcarcely fay, tranflated. The fubjedt is 
difficult to be alluded to ; and yet, in juftice to a great poet, whofe defedts, 
whatever they may have been, were certainly not thofe which might be 

* See Schack's Gefchichte der dramatifchen Literatur undKunJiin Spanien,h. in. p. 55. 

f In defcribing the clafs of dramas to which T^e De'votion of the Crofs belongs, it is 
fingular that Bouterwek (hould have fallen into the miftake of calling it an Auto ; 
thereby leaving us to infer that he did not underftand the marked and impaffible dif- 
tance that feparates a religious Drama {Comedia) of Calderon, or any other Spanifh 
poet, from an Auto. The Sorceries of Sin in this volume will give the reader fome idea 
of what an Auto is, and how impoffible it is to confound it with a Drama in the ordi- 
nary fenfe, even when dealing with fpiritual or religious fubjefts or things. Mr. 
Longfellow has fallen into the fame miftake as Bouterwek, in his defcription of this 
drama. See the chapter on The De^uotional Foetry of Spain ^ in his Outre Mer. 



212 THE DEMOTION OF THE CROSS. 

inferred from the feleftion of fuch topics as thofe alluded to, I cannot 
avoid it altogether. Sifmondi, in fpeaking of this drama, calls the hero, 
Eufebio, " an inceftuous brigand;" and, as if this were not enough, 
adds, further on, the phrafe, " His fifter, Julia, who is alfo his mijirejs^' * 
&c. Now for the fhocking aflertion contained in thefe two quotations 
there is not the flighteft fhadow of foundation. No criminal intercourfe 
whatever exifts between the hero and heroine of this terrible tragedy 
(how prevented the reader will learn in the powerful fcene, which, 
however faintly interpreted, muft rivet his attention), and the unfufpe61:ed 
relationfhip which exifts between them is never known to one of the 
parties until his laft moments, and to the other until after the death of 
her brother. How diff"erently does another diftinguifhed French writer 
allude to this fubjecSt. With the beautiful pafTage to which I refer, I 
fhall leave the drama in the hands of the reader. " On devine fans 
peine," fays M. Philarete Chafles, " que Julia eft la fceur d'Eufebe ; et 
cette invention dramatique augmentant d'intenfite irait coudoyer I'hor- 
rible et I'infoutenable, fi Calderon n'etait doue de ce vrai genie dont 
I'effence eft pure. Nous allons le voir, dans une occafion fi difficile, 
retrouver la moralite qui lui eft propre, la fublime pudeur qui ne I'aban- 
donne jamais. Ses ailes blanches et vierges trempent dans Forage fans 
fe fletrir, et eifleurent la foudre fans fe bruler."t 

With regard to the locality in which the a£tion of this lingular drama 
is fuppofed to take place, it may be right to add a few words. Neither 
in this, nor in any of the other dramas of Calderon, as given to us in the 
ordinary editions, J is th^ fcene ever mentioned, nor any of the ufual aids 

* Literature of the South of Europe. I quote from Bohn's tranilation, v. ii. p. 379, 
not having the original by me. Mr. Lewes, with equal inaccuracy, alfo adds the 
crime alluded to in the text to the category of Eufebio's offences. See his SpaniJJi 
Drama; London, 1846, p. no. 

f Etudes fur VEfpagne^ par M. Philarete Chafles,- Paris, 1847, p. 55. 

X A remark which may be applied not only to all the Spanifh editions prior to that 



INTRODUCTION, 213 



to the reader's imagination fupplied, fuch as we generally find in the dra- 
matic literature of other countries. In the early Englifh drama, a board 
with the name of a town written upon it was fufficient for the lively imagi- 
nation of the audience to waft the fpe61:ators from London to York, or 
from Venice to Verona. But in the Spanifh plays, as printed^ this fign- 
poft information is wanting, and the reader is obliged to infer the fcene 
of the event from the language of the chara61:ers engaged. This want, 
with many others, is fupplied in the edition of Senor Hartzenbufch, as 
well as in fuch German and French tranflations as I have feen. In the 
prefent inftance " Sena" is the centre round which all the action of the 
drama revolves. Senor Hartzenbufch prints the word " Sena" as in 
the text, leaving it doubtful whether he underftands it to mean Siena in 
Italy, or one of the three fmall towns in Spain that are called Sena. 
M. Damas Hinard, in his profe verfion of this play,* mentions two of 
thefe, one in Aragon, the other in Leon, and is uncertain which of them 
to decide on. A third, near Santander, might be added, which, if we 
are to look at all in Spain for the locality, might be more likely, as the 
fea is mentioned more than once, as being in the neighbourhood of " the 
mountain," which is the fcene of fo many wonders. This, however, 
would not be fufficient to decide the queftion, becaufe in matters of 
geographical precifion Calderon was as carelefs as Greene in his Pan- 
dofto^ or Shakefpeare in his Winter's Tale, But it feems to me that, 
notwithftanding the ftrong Spanifh colouring of the entire landfcape, the 
rude crofTes, the bandoleros^ and the /terras^ Siena in Italy muft be con- 
fidered the centre round which all this wild and imaginary fcenery lies, 
Sena being the ancient Latin name of Siena, which Calderon probably 
adopted. If proof were wanting, the fa61:s of the ftory, either alluded to 

of Senor Hartzenbufch's, but to all the foreign reprints that I have feen, including 
thofe of Ochoa (Paris, 1847), and of Keil (Leipzic, 1827-30). 

* Chefs -d'cewvre de Theatre Efpagnoli Calderon, i""^ ferie ; Paris, 1841, p. 148, 
note. 



214 2"iy^ DEVOTION OF THE CROSS, 

or enadted, would be fufficient : — the miffion of Curcio from the Re- 
public to the Pope ; the journeying to and from Rome by Alberto, 
bifliop of Trent , his profeflbrfhip in the Univerfity of Bologna ; and, 
laflly, the account which the Genoefe painter gives of himfelf, in the 
fcene taken from the Huefca edition of La Cruz en la Sepultura^ of his 
bringing to Florence a painting ordered by one of his patrons there. 
Schlegel, in his Die Andacht %um Kreuze^ adopts Siena without any 
remark, as does the writer of the very accurate paper on The Devotion 
of the Crofs in Blackwood,* and as moft other Englifh writers have done 
who have alluded to this play. 

* Blackwood's Magazine, vol. xviii. p. 83. July, 1825. 




PERSONS REPRESENTED. 


EUSEBIO. 


EUSEBIO. 


CuRCio, viejo. 


CURCIO. 


LiSARDO. 


LisARDO, his f on. 


OCTAVIO. 


OcTAVio, in Curcio's fervice. 


Alberto, viejo. 


Alberto, anagedpriefi,biJhop of Trent. 


Gil, villano graciofo. 


Gil, a pea f ant. 


Bras, -\ 


Tirso, '\ 


Tirso, \ villanos. 


Bras, \ peafants. 


ToRIBIO,J 


ToRIBIO,J 


r, ' !• bandoleros. 

RiCARDO, ) 


^^^°Lo^'"""^'*'■ 


[Un Pintor. 


[A Painter. 


Un Poeta. 


A Poet. 


Un Astrologo.]* 


An Astrologer.]* 


Julia, dama. 


Julia, Curcio^s daughter. 


Arminda, criada. 


Arminda, her attendant. 


Chilindrina. 


Chillindrina, a follower of the bandits. 


Menga, villana graciofa. 


Menga, GiPs wife. 


Bandoleros y Villanos. 


Bandits and Peafants. 


Soldados. 


Soldiers. 


Scene, Siena and 


its Neighbourhood. 


* From the editio 


1 of Huefca, 1634. 

/ 




THE DEVOTION OF THE CROSS. 
JORNADA I. 



ArEOLEDA IMMEDIATA a UN CAMINO QUE 

SE DiRiGE A Sena. 



Die en dentro Menga y Gil. 

Menga. 
ERA por do va la burra. 




Gil. 
Jo dimuno ; jo mohina. 



Menga. 
Ya vera por do camina : 
Arre aca. 

Gil. 
J El diabro te aburra ! 
I No hay quien una cola tenga, 
Pudiendo tenella mil? 

\_Salen los dos. 
Menga. 
J Buena hacienda has hecho, Gil ! 

Gil. 
\ Buena hacienda has hecho, Menga, 
Pues tu la culpa tuvifte ! 




ACT I. 

A WILD WOODY mountain DISTRICT, 

not far from the high road to 

Siena. 

Menga and Gil behind the Scenes. 

Menga. 
iEE ! the afs is going to turn 
her! 
Gil. 
Yo, dolt's dam! yo, devil's 
daughter ! 
Menga. 
There, fhe's iluck ! you fliould have 

caught her ; 
Yo ! geho 1 

Gil, 
The devil burn her ! 
Had fhe fifty tails to tickle. 
All were vain againft her will. 

\l!hey enter. 
Menga. 
What a fix we're in, friend Gil ! 

Gil. 
What the devil of a pickle ! 
All through fault of yours, I'm thinking. 



F F 



2l8 



LA DEFOCION DE LA CRUZ. 



Que como ibas caballera. 
Que en el hoyo fe metiera, 
Al oido la dijifte, 
Por hacerme regaiiar. 
Menga. 
Por verme caer a mi, 
Se lo dijifte, efo si. 

Gil. 
I Como la hemes de facar ? 

Menga. 
I Pues en el lodo la dejas ? 

GiL 
No puede mi fuerza fola. 



Yo tirare de la cola, 
Tira tu de las orejas. 

GiL 
Mejor remedio feria 
Hacer el que aprovecho 
A un coche, que fe atafco 
En la corte efotro dia. 
Efte coche, Dios delante, 
Que arraftrado de dos potros, 
Parecia entre los otros 
Pobre coche vergonzante. 
Y por maldicion muy cierta 
De fus padres (hado efquivo !) 
Iba de eftribo en eftribo, 
Ya que no de puerta en puerta ; 
En un arroyo atafcado. 
Con ruegos el caballero, 
Con azotes el cochero, 
Ya por fuerza, ya por grado, 
Ya por gufto, ya por miedo. 
Que fahefen procuraban : 
Por recio que lo mandaban, 
Mi coche quedo que quedo. 
Viendo que no importan nada 
Cuantos remedios hicieron. 



Since, my Menga, fmce you rode her. 
You it muft have been who Ihow'd her 
Juft the very fpot to fink in ; — 
'Tis to vex me that you teaze her. 

Menga. 
Since Ihe threw me o'er her fhoulder. 
You it muft have been who told her. 

Gil. 
But the queftion. How releafe her ? 



In the mud wouldft leave her here ? 

Gil. 
All my ftrength, as nought, avails her. 

Menga. 
I can pull her by the tail, fir ; 
You can pull her by the ear. 

Gil. 
No, I think a better way. 
And a quicker to revive her. 
Is to do, as did the driver 
Of a coach the other day. 
This fame coach, the execration 
Of the ftreets, in flow approaches 
Slunk befide the other coaches. 
Like a fliabby poor relation ; 
Or for fome deep grief it bore, 
(Who or what its grief can fmother?) 
Went from one fide to the other, 
'Stead of on from door to door : — 
In the kennel now 'tis ftuck. 
How the knight within doth growl ! 
Some try fair means, fome try foul, 
Coachee laflies, footmen chuck, 
Cufliions fly to make it lighter. 
All is noife and cries and worrit ; 
But the more they ftrive to ftir it. 
Seems my coach to ftick the tighter. 
Seeing thus 'twere beft to parley, 
Coachee takes the beft of courfes, 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 219 


Delante el coche pulieron 


And before the half-llarved horfes 


Un harnero de cebada. 


Holds outftretch'd a lieve of barley ; — 


Los caballos, por comer. 


The poor llarvelings feek to fwallow. 


De tal manera tiraron. 


So they tug with might and main. 


Que tolieron y arrancaron ; 


Drag the coach from out the drain. 


Y efto podemos hacer. 


And the example we may follow.* 


Menga. 


Menga. 


\ Que nunca valen dos cuartos 


Tales like this you've now related 


Tus cuentos ! 


Ar'n't two farthings worth. 


Gil. 


Gi/. 


Menga, yo fiento 


O'ercaft 


Ver un animal hambriento. 


Am I, feeing one beaft/?/?. 


Donde hay animales hartos. 


Where Hand two quite fatiated. 


Menga. 


Menga. 


Voy al camino a mirar 


I will to the road, the diftance 


Si pafa de nueftra aldea 


Ifn't far, to fee fome neighbour 


Gente, cualquiera que fea. 


Paffing to his daily labour. 


Porque te venga a ayudar. 


Who will come to give affiftance : 


Pues te das tan pocas mafias. 


Since 'tis little zeal you fhow. 


Gil^ 


GiL 


I Vuelves, Menga, a tu porf ia ? 


Menga mine, your wrath control. 


Menga. 


Menga. 


i Ay burra del alma mia ! [Va/e. 


Oh ! dear donkey of my foul ! [Exit. 


Gil. 


Gil. 


i Ay burra de mis entranas ! 


Donkey of my bowels, oh ! 


Tu fuifte la mas honrada 


Thou that wert the moll refpe£led 


Burra de toda la aldea ; 


Donkey of our village green. 


Que no ha habido quien te vea 


Thou that never yet haft been 


Nunca mal acompaiiada. 


In bad company detedted ; 


No eres nada callejera ; 


Thou that gadded not about. 


De mijor gana te eftabas 


But preferr'd domeftic quiet, — 


En tu pefebre, que andabas. 


A fnug manger and good diet — 


Cuando te llevaban fuera. 


To the joys of going out : 


* Sydney Smith, in his amufing lefture " On 


the Condua of the Underftanding," condemning 


what he calls " the foppery of univerfality" in 


one's ftudies, fays whimfically, that " he would 


exaft of a young man a pledge never to read Lop 


e de Vega!" Fortunately he does not include or 


exclude Calderon, who in this little ftory happen 


3 to have anticipated the witty canon in the anec- 


dote which he tells us of himfelf and his hor 


fe " Calamity."— See Ufe of Sydney Smith by 


Lady Holland. 







220 LA DEFOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Pues I altanera y liviana ? 


Though thou'rt Ikittifh, may be vain. 


Bien me atrevo a jurar yo. 


Yet I'll fwear it, notwithftanding. 


Que ningun burro la vio 


No one ever faw you Handing, 


j Afomada a la ventana. 


Ogling at the window-pane. 


1 Yo fe que no merecia 


True, that honefl tongue of thine 


Su lengua defdicha tal ; 


Is a little rough, no matter. 


Pues jamas para habrar mal 


You fpeak truly, and don't flatter, 


Dijo : Aquefta boca es mia. 


When you fay. This voice is mine. 


Pues como a elk la fobre 


And you're generous, too, the grafs 


De lo que comiendo efta. 


Which your maw declines receiving. 


Luego al punto fe lo da 


I have often feen you leaving 


A alguna borrica pobre. 


To fome poor and hungrier afs.* 


[Ruido dentro. 


[A noife within. 


Mas I que ruido es efte ? Alii 


But what noife is this ? Oh ! yonder 


De dos caballos fe apean 


I behold two men who've ridden 


Dos hombres, y hacia mi vienen. 


Hard here, tie their panting horfes 


Defpues que atados los dejan. 


To the trees, and wander hither; — 


i Defcoloridos, y al campo 


Pale ! and in the fields fo early ! 


De manana j Cofa es cierta. 


Oh ! 'tis plain they've got green ficknefs. 


Que comen barro, 6 eftan 


Should they prove, though, bandoleros ! 


Opilados. Mas i li fueran 


'Gad ! that were a pretty bulinefs ! — 


Bandoleros ? j Aqui es ello ! 


Be they who they may, 'tis better 


Pero lo que fuere fea. 


That I hide me here a little. 


Aqui me efcondo ; que andan. 


Here they come ; they reach, they enter. 


Que corren, que falen, que entran. 


Ere I've fcarcely time to fix me. 


\EJcondeJe. 


\_He conceals himfelf. 


Salen Lisardo y Eusebio. 


Enter Lisardo and Eusebio. 


Lifardo, 


Lifardo. 


No pafemos adelante. 


Let us then proceed no farther. 


Porque efta eftancia encubierta 


Since this thorny-tangled thicket. 


Y apartada del camino. 


Screen'd and fever'd from the highway. 


Es para mi intento buena. 


For my objeft is well fitted. 


Sacad, Eufebio, la efpada; 


Draw then, draw your fword, Eufebio, 


Que yo, de aquefta manera. 


As I mine, for thus fuccinftly 


A los hoinbres como vos 


Do I challenge men like you 


* The humour of this addrefs will not unpleafantly recall Goldfmith's " Elegy on the glory of 


her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize." 





THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 221 


Saco a reiiir. 


To the combat. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Aunque tenga 


Though fufficient 


Baftante caufa en haber 


Caufe have I in having come 


Llegado al campo, quifiera 


To the field here, yet my wifhes 


Saber lo que a vos os mueve. 


Are to know what thus has moved you. 


Decid, Lifardo, la queja. 


Say, Lifardo, fay what hidden 


Que de mi teneis. 


Charge againll me have you ? 


Lifardo. 


Lifardo. 


Son tantas. 


I 


Que falta voz a la lengua. 


Have fo many, that to hint them 


Razones a la razon. 


Would my tongue want words, my 


Y al fufrimiento paciencia. 


reafon 


Quifiera, Eufebio, callarlas. 


Utterance, and all patience quit me. 


Y aun olvidarlas quifiera ; 


I, Eufebio, would in filence. 


Porque cuando fe repiten. 


Nay, in dark oblivion fink them. 


Hacen de nuevo la ofenfa. 


Since an infult when repeated 


I Conoceis ellos papeles ? 


Is a fecond time committed. 




Do you recognize thefe papers ? 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Arrojadlos en la tierra. 


Throw them down, and I will lift them 


Y los alzare. 


From the ground. 


Lifardo. 


Lifardo. 


Tomad. 


They're there then, take them : — 


Que OS fufpendeis ? que os altera ? 


Why thus tremble .? Why thus fhiver ? 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Mai haya el hombre, mal haya 


Woe unto the man ! a thoufand 


Mil veces aquel, que entrega 


Woes to him, who hath committed 


Sus fecretos a un papel ; 


His heart's fecrets to a letter ! 


Porque es difparada piedra. 


'Tis a random Hone, a miflile. 


Que fe fabe quien la tira. 


Which the hand that flings it knoweth. 


Y no fe fabe a quien llega. 


But is ignorant whom it hitteth. 


Lifardo. 


Lifardo. 


I Habeiflos ya conocido \ 


Have you fcrutinifed them fully ? 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Todos eilan de mi letra. 


That thefe letters were all written 


Que no la puedo negar. 


By my hand, I mull: acknowledge. 


Lifardo. 


Lifardo. 


Pues yo foy Lifardo, en Sena, 
i 


Well, Siena is my birth-place. 



222 LA DEFOCIOISI 


^ DE LA CRUZ. 


Hijo de Lifardo Curcio. 


And my fire Lifardo Curcio. 


Bien excufadas grandezas 


The unfparing, the unftinted 


De mi padre confumieron 


Habits of my father wafted 


En breve tiempo la hacienda, 


Soon the wealth to him tranfmitted 


Que los fuyos le dejaron ; 


By more prudent predecefibrs ; 


Que no fabe cuanto yerra 


Ignorant how much he finneth. 


Quien, por excefivos gaftos. 


Who by wild and wafteful outlay 


Pobres a fus hijos deja. 


Maketh paupers of his children. 


Pero la necefidad. 


But although neceflity 


Aunque ultraje la nobleza. 


May a noble name disfigure. 


No excufa de obligaciones 


It exempts not from their duties 


A los que nacen con ellas. 


Thofe whofe birth is burthen'd with 


Julia pues, (j faben los cielos. 


them. 


Cuanto el nombrarla me pefa !) 


Julia then .... (ah me! Heaven knows 


O no fupo confervarlas. 


How to name her name afflidls me !) 


O no llego a conocerlas. 


Knew not rightly to obferve them. 


Pero al fin, Julia es mi hermana | 


Or not knowing them could omit them. 


i Pluguiera a Dios no lo fuera ! 


But ftill Julia (would to God 


y advertid, que no fe firven 


That fhe were not!) is my fifter. 


Las mujeres de fus prendas 


And you know, when wooing women 


Con amorofos papeles. 


Of her rank, 'tis not permitted 


Con razones lifonjeras. 


To indite perfuafive flatteries. 


Con ilicitos recados. 


To addrefs love-laden billets. 


Ni con infames terceras. 


To fend meffages in fecret. 


No OS culpo en el todo a vos ; 


And hire go-betweens to bring them. 


Que yo confiefo, que hiciera 


I for this don't wholly blame you. 


Lo mifmo, a darme una dama 


Since I will confefs, in this way 


Para fervirla licencia ; 


Would I aft too, if a lady 


Pero culpos en la parte 


Leave to woo her would but give me ; 


De fer mi amigo, y en efta 


But I blame you, from the fad of 


Con mas culpa os comprehende 


Being my friend, and fo, from this, fee 


La culpa que tuvo ella. 


How through you the fault is doubled. 


Si mi hermana os agrado 


That by her has been committed. 


Para mujer (que no era 


If my fifter pleafed your fancy 


Polible, ni yo lo creo 


As a wife (I cannot bring me 


Que OS atrevierais a verla 


To believe it poffible. 


Con otro fin, ni aun con efte ; 


That you ever hoped to win her 


Pues J vive Dios ! que quifiera 


Otherwife, or even as this ; 


Antes, que con vos cafada. 


Since, as God lives 1 I would wifh her. 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 223 


Mirarla a mis manos muerta) : 


Ere with you I faw her married. 


En fin, fi vos la elegilleis 


Dead, although my own hands kill'd 


Para mujer, jufto fuera 


her): 


Defcubrir vuellros defeos 


In a word, if you felefted 


A mi padre, antes que a ella. 


Her to be your wife, 'twere fitteft 


Efte era termino juilo. 


That, before herfelf, my father 


Y entonces mi padre viera. 


Were acquainted with your wifhes. 


Si le eftaba bien el dark, 


That were the corre£l proceeding. 


Que pienfo que no os la diera ; 


Then my father would confider 


Porque un caballero pobre. 


If 'twere right to give her to you. 


Cuando en cofas como eftas 


And I think he would not give her ; 


No puede medir iguales 


For a gentleman grown poor. 


La calidad y la hacienda. 


When a cafe like this arifes. 


Por no deflucir fu fangre 


If he finds he cannot equal 


Con una hija doncella. 


Fortune with his rank's requirements, 


Hace fagrado un convento ; 


Left through an unmarried daughter 


Que es delito la pobreza. 


On his blood Ihould fall defilement. 


Aquefte a Julia mi hermana 


Seeks the fafeguard of a convent ; 


Con tanta prifa la efpera. 


Such a crime is want of riches. 


Que maiiana ha de fer monja. 


This fate now fo foon awaiteth 


Por voluntad, 6 por fuerza. 


Upon Julia, on my fifter. 


Y porque no fera bien. 


That fhe muft the veil to-morrow 


Que una religiofa tenga 


Take, though force control her wifhes ! 


Prendas de tan loco amor. 


And becaufe it were not right 


Y de voluntad tan necia. 


That a novice Ihould have with her 


A vueftras manos las vuelvo. 


Proofs of fucli a foolilh paffion. 


Con refolucion tan ciega, 


And of a defire fo filly, 


Que no folo he de quitarlas. 


I return them to your hands. 


Mas tambien la caufa dellas. 


With a blind refolve and fixed. 


Sacad la efpada, j aqui 


To deftroy not only them. 


El uno de los dos muera ; 


But the very hand that writ them. 


Vos, porque no la firvais. 


Draw then, draw your fword, for now 


O yo, porque no lo vea. 


Either of us twain muft die here ; 




You, that you may ceafe your fervice. 




I, that fervice not to witnefs. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Tened, Lifardo, la efpada. 


Sheathe your fword awhile, Lifardo, 


Y pues yo he tenido flema 


And fince I have deign'd to liften 


Para oir defprecios mios, 


With fuch phlegm to my difpraifes. 



224 



LA DEFOCION DE LA CRUZ. 



Efcuchadme la refpuefta ; 

Y aunque el difcurfo fea largo 
De mi fucefo, y parezca 
Que, ellando folos los dos, 
Es demafiada paciencia, 
Pues que ya es fuerza renir, 

Y morir el uno es fuerza ; 
For li los cielos permiten. 
Que yo el infelice fea. 
Old prodigios que admiran, 

Y maravillas que elevan ; 

Que no es bien, que con mi muerte 

Eterno filencio tengan. 

Yo no fe quien fue mi padre ; 

Pero fe, que la primera 

Cuna fue el pie de una Cruz, 

Y el primer lecho una piedra. 
Raro fue mi nacimiento, 
Segun los pallores cuentan. 
Que delta fuerte me hallaron 
En la falda de efas lierras, 
Tres dias, dicen, que oyeron 
Mi llanto, y que a la afpereza, 
Donde ellaba, no llegaron 
Por el temor de las fieras. 

Sin que alguna me ofendiefe : 
Pero I quien duda que era 
Por refpeto de la Cruz, 
Que tenia en mi defenfa ? 
Hallome un paftor, que acafo 
Bufco una perdida oveja 
En la afpereza del monte, 

Y trayendome a la aldea 

De Eufebio, que no fin caufa 
Eftaba entonces en ella. 
Le conto mi prodigiofo 
Nacimiento, y la clemencia 
Del cielo afiftio a la fuya. 
Mando en fin, que me trajeran 



Hear the anfwer that I give them : — 
And although my life's ftrange ftory 
May feem long, and the recital 
Out of reafonable patience 
Weary you, we Handing pitted 
Breafl to breaft thus for the combat, 
In which one of us muft die here. 
And left Heaven perchance permitteth 
Me to be the haplefs vi6lim. 
Hear the wonders moft aftounding. 
Hear the marvels moft furpriling. 
Which 'twere wrong my death Ihould 

hide here 
In its everlafting filence. 
Who my father was I know not ; 
But I know this, I, an infant. 
Had a crofs's foot for cradle. 
And a hard ftone for my firft bed. 
Strange my birth, and ftrange the ftory 
Which the fhepherds oft recited. 
Who had found me thus abandon'd 
In a gorge of thefe wild hills here. 
For three days, they faid, they heard me 
Crying, but to reach the cliffs where 
I was placed they could not venture. 
Through the terror of the wild beafts. 
One of whom nor hurt nor touch'd me; 
Who can doubt through certain inftindls 
Of refpeft unto the Crofs 
Which in my defence ftood nigh me ? 
There by accident, a fhepherd. 
Seeking a loft lamb, defcried me 
In the wildnefs of the mountain. 
And who brought me to the village 
Of Eufebio, who had caufe then 
Doubtlefs to be dwelling in it. 
Him he told of my prodigious 
Birth, and pitying Heaven affifted 
By its own, to wake his pity. 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 225 


A fu cafa, y como a hijo 


Finally he bade them bring me 


Me dio la crianza en ella. 


To his houfe, and as his fon 


Eufebio foy de la Cruz, 


To be rear'd, and cared, and chriflen'd. 


Por fu nombre, y por aquella, 


Thus, Eufebio of the Crofs 


Que fue mi primera guia. 


Am I call'd ; a name that mingles 


Y fue mi guarda primera. 


His with that one which to me 


Tome por gufto las armas. 


Was my guide firfl:, and my firfi: friend. 


Por pafatiempo las letras ; 


Arms I took to as a paflion. 


Murio Eufebio, y yo quede 


As a paftime books enticed me. 


Heredero de fu hacienda. 


Then Eufebio died, and left me 


Si fue prodigiofo el parto. 


The fole heir of all his riches. 


No lo fue menos la eftrella. 


If my birth was fo prodigious. 


Que enemiga me amenaza. 


Nothing lefs fo was my life's ftar, — 


Y piadofa me referva. 


Now a threat'ning foe to fright me. 


Tierno infante era en los brazos 


Now a pitying friend to guide me. 


Del ama, cuando mi fiera 


Still a tender infant, lying 


Condicion, barbara en todo. 


In my nurfe's arms, my wicked 


Dio de fus rigores mueflra ; 


Nature, which was wholly favage. 


Pues con folas las encias. 


Gave a fample of its wildnefs ; 


No fin diabolica fuerza. 


Since but with my gums, their weaknefs 


Parti el pecho de quien tuve 


By a demon's power afilfted. 


El dulce alimento ; y ella. 


I cut through the tender bofom 


Del dolor defefperada. 


Out from which my fweet food 


Y de la colera ciega. 


trickled :— 


En un pozo me arrojo. 


She, made defperate by the anguifh. 


Sin que ninguno fupiera 


And by fudden anger blinded. 


De mi. Oyendome reir. 


Down into a deep well threw me, 


Bajaron a el, y cuentan. 


Unperceived by any witnefs. 


Que eftaba fobre las aguas. 


Thence my laugh being heard, they 


Y que con las manos tiernas 


ventured 


Tenia una Cruz formada. 


To the bottom, and the finders 


Y fobre los labios puella. 


Said they found me on the water. 


Un dia que fe abrafaba 


And that with my little fingers 


La cafa, y la llama fiera 


I a natural Crofs had fafhion'd. 


Cerraba el pafo a la huida. 


And had placed it on my lips there. 


Yak falida la puerta. 


On a certain day when fire had 


Entre las llamas eftuve 


Seized our dwelling, and the wild flame 


Libre, fin que me ofendieran : 


Barr'd all entrance or all exit 


Y adverti defpues, dudando 


From the outfide or the inner. 



126 



LA DEVOCION DE LA CRUZ. 



Que haya en el fuego clemencia, 
I Que era dia de la Cruz. 
Tres luilros contaba apenas, 
Cuando por el mar fui a Roma, 
y en una brava tormenta, 
Defefperada mi nave 
Choco en una oculta pena. 
En pedazos dividida, 
Por los coftados abierta : 
Abrazado de un madero 
Sail venturofo a tierra, 

Y efle madero tenia 
Forma de Cruz. Por las fierras 
De efos montes caminaba 
Con otro hombre, y en la fenda 
Que dos caminos partia, 
Una Cruz eftaba puefta. 
En tanto que me quede, 
Haciendo oracion en elJa, 
Se adelanto el companero ; 

Y defpues dandome priefa 
Para alcanzarle, le haile 
Muerto a las manos fangrientas 
De bandoleros. Un dia, 
Rinendo en una pendencia, 
De una eftocada cai. 
Sin que hiciefe reliftencia. 
En la tierra ; y cuando todos 
Penfaron hallarla ajena 
De re medio, fob hallaron 
Serial de la punta fiera 
En una Cruz que traia 
Al cuello, que en mi defenfa 
Recibio el golpe. Cazando 
Una vez por la afpereza 
Defte monte, fe cubrio 
El cielo de nubes negras, 

Y publicando con truenos 
Al mundo efpantofa guerra. 



I among the flames was able 

To pafs free, untouch'd, uninjured ; 

And'twas thought of then, while wonder 

At the fire's forbearance fill'd them. 

That it was the Day of the Crofs ! 

Scarce three luftres had I circled. 

When by fea to Rome I journey 'd ; 

And a wild ftorm having rifen. 

Drove my haplefs bark with fury 

On a fharp rock lying hidden ; 

And the open bulwarks parting, 

Soon the veflel broke in fplinters ; — 

I, a paffing plank embracing. 

Safely to the fhore was drifted ! 

And this plank, I found, was fafhion*d 

Like a Crofs. Among the ridges 

Of thefe mountains once I travell'd 

With a friend, and in the middle 

Of the path where two roads parted 

Was a ruftic Crofs uplifted ; 

To recite a prayer before it 

While I ftay'd behind a little. 

My companion Hill went forward ; 

And when ufing double quicknefs 

To overtake him, dead I found him. 

By the red hands of banditti 

Foully murderM. I one day 

Mix'd up in a feud, was fmitten 

By the fharp ilroke of a dagger. 

So that down I fell refilllefs 

On the ground, and when all round me 

Reckoned that my wound admitted 

Of no help, they could but only 

Find a flight mark of the fierce fteel 

On a Crofs I wore fufpended 

From my neck, and which was dinted 

Thus in my defence. When hunting 

Once amid the roughefl: diftri6l 

Of this mountain, heaven had cover'd 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 227 


Lanzas arrojaba en agua. 


Itfelf o'er with black clouds thickly. 


Balas difparaba en piedras. 


And in thunder-claps proclaiming 


Todos hicieron las hojas 


'Gainft the world a war terrific. 


Contra las nubes defenfa. 


Shot its bullets in the hail-Hones, 


Siendo ya tiendas de campo 


In the rain its lances tilted. 


Las mas ocultas malezas ; 


We all flying from the cloud-gufts, 


Y un rayo, que fue en el viento 


Shelter fought beneath the thick leaves. 


Caliginofo cometa. 


Where, like tents of an encampment. 


Volvio en ceniza a los dos 


Arch'd the thickets dark and prickly ; 


Que de mi eftaban mas cerca. 


When a bolt, that on the fwift wind 


Ciego, turbado y confufo 


Like a vaporous comet glittered. 


Vuelvo a mirar lo que era. 


Into alhes burn'd the two 


Y halle a mi lado una Cruz, 


Who were Handing clofe befide me ! 


Que yo pienfo que es la mefma, 


Blind, diftrafted, in confulion 


Que alillio a mi nacimiento. 


Round I turn'd to fee what hid me. 


Y la que yo tengo imprefa 


And I then perceived a Crofs, — 


En los pechos ; pues los cielos 


It the fame, in my opinion. 


Me han fenalado con ella. 


Which flood o*er me on my birth-day. 


Para publicos efeftos 


And of which I bear the imprefs 


De alguna caufa fecreta. 


On my breaft; fince Heaven hath 


Pero aunque no fe quien foy, 


mark'd me 


Tal efpiritu me alienta, 


With that fymbol's myftic image. 


Tal inclinacion me anima. 


Thus to publifh the efFefts 


Y tal animo me fuerza. 


Of a caufe that yet lies hidden. 


Que por mi me da valor 


Thus though ignorant who I am. 


Para que a Julia merezca ; 


Such a fpirit doth incite me. 


Porque no es mas la heredada. 


Such an impulfe animates me. 


Que la adquirida nobleza. 


Such a glow of courage fires me. 


Eile foy, y aunque conozco 


That I feel I'm not unworthy 


La razon, y aunque pudiera 


To love Julia, and to win her ; 


Dar fatisfaccion baftante 


Since nobility is equal 


A vueftro agravio, me ciega 


Whether felf-born or tranfmitted. 


Tanto la palion de veros 


This I am, and though the reafon 


Hablando de efa manera. 


I well know, and though fufiicient 


Que ni os quiero dar difculpa. 


Satisfaction I could make you 


Ni OS quiero admitir la queja ; 


For your wrong, fuch pafilon blinds me. 


Y pues quereis eftorbar. 


Seeing that you have adrefs'd me j 


Que yo fu marido lea ; 


In a way fo cold and flighting, 1 


Aunque fu cafa la guarde. 


That I'll neither make excufes, | 



228 LA DEFOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Aunque un convento la tenga. 


Nor admit the quarrel right here ; 


De mi no ha de eftar fegura ; 


And fince my delire of being 


Y la que no ha fido buena 


Married to her you would hinder. 


Para mujer^ lo fera 


Though her father's houfe fhould guard 


Para dama ; all defea 


her. 


Defefperado mi amor. 


Though a convent's walls may hide her, 


Y ofendida mi paciencia. 


Neither Ihall enfure her fafety ; 


Caftigar vuellro defprecio. 


She, too good to be permitted 


Y fatisfacer mi afrenta. 


To become my wife, fhall ferve me 




As a mifirefs : — thus delireth 




The defpair of my alFedlion, 




Thus my patience now extinguifh'd. 




To chaftife your proud defpifal. 




And my honour's ftain outwipe here. 


Lifardo. 


Lifardo. 


Eufebio, donde el acero 


When the fword can fpeak, Eufebio, 


Ha de hablar, calle la lengua. 


Let the tongue at leail be filent. 


\^Sacan las efpadas y rinen^ y Li- 


[They draw and fight. 


SARDO cae en el fuelo, y procu- 




rando levantarfe, torna a caer. 




\ Herido eftoy ! 


Ah ! I'm wounded ! \He falls . 


Eufebio, 


Eufebio. 


I Y no muerto ? 


And not dead ? 


Lifardo. 


Lifardo. 


No, que en los brazos me queda 


No ! for in thefe arms furviveth 


Aliento para . . . . j Ay de mi ! 


Strength enough .... But woe is me. 


Falto a mis plantas la tierra. 


'Neath my feet the firm earth linketh ! 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Y falte a tu voz la vida. 


And in life's laft gafp thy voice fmks. 


Lifardo. 


Lifardo. 


No me permitas que muera 


Oh ! allow me not unfhriven 


Sin confelion. 


Here to die ! 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


J Muere, infame ! 


Die ! mifcreant, villain ! 


Lifardo. 


Lifardo. 


No me mates, por aquella 


I implore you not to kill me. 


Cruz en que Crifto murio. 


By the Crofs on which Chrift fufFer'd. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Aquefa voz te deiienda 


Ah ! that folemn word unfits me 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 229 


De la muerte. Alza del fuelo ; 


For the death-ftroke. Rife, Lifardo, 


Que cuando por ella ruegas. 


Since when you through it afk pity. 


Falta rigor a la ira. 


From my arm the llrength departeth. 


Y falta a los brazos fuerza. 


From my anger flies its rigour. 


Alza del fuelo. 


Rife, then, from the ground. 


Lifardo, 


Lifardo. 


No puedo ; 


I cannot ; 


Porque ya en mi fangre envuelta 


For already the red river 


V07 defpreciando la vida. 


Of my life is pall all flaying. 


Y el alma pienfo que efpera 


And I think the foul but lingers 


A falir, porque entre tantas 


To go forth, becaufe it knows not 


No fabe cual es la puerta. 


Which, 'mid many, is the right door. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Pues fiate de mis brazos. 


Then entruft thee to my arms. 


Y animate ; que aqui cerca 


And take courage ; for hard by here 


De unos penitentes monjes 


Stands the little hermitage 


Hay una ermita pequena, 


Of fome penitential friars. 


Donde podras confefarte. 


Where thou may'll confefs, if haply 


Si vivo a fus puertas llegas. 


Thou to reach their doors furviveft. 


Lifardo. 


Lifardo. 


Pues yo te doy mi palabra. 


For the pity thou dofl fhow me. 


Por efa piedad que mueftras. 


I my folemn promife give thee. 


Que li yo merezco verme 


That if e'er to God's divineft 


En la divina prefencia 


Prefence I fhall be admitted, 


De Dios, pedire que tu 


I fhall alk for thee the grace 


Sin confefarte no mueras. 


Likewife not to die unfhriven. 


\Lrevale Eusebio en brazos. 


[Eusebio carries him out in his arms. 


Gil. 


Gil. 


J Han villo lo que le debe ! 


Whoe'er faw the like of this ? 


La caridad efta buena ; 


Charity in faith's a fine thing ; 


Pero yo fe la perdono. 


But I'll rather you'd excufe me : — 


J Matarle, y llevarle a cueftas ! 


Firft to kill him, then to lift him ! 


Salen Bras, Tirso, Menga y 


Enter Menga, Bras, Tirso, and 


TORIBIO. 


Toribio. 


Toribio. 


Toribio. 


I Aqui dices que quedaba ? 


Was it here you faid he waited ? 


Menga. 


Menga. 


Aqui fe quedo con ella. 


Here it was I left him with her. 



230 LA DEFOCION 


DE LJ CRUZ. 


Tirfo, 


Tirfo. 


Mirale alii embelefado. 


See him, how he flares and gapes there. 


Menga. 


Menga. 


Gil, \ que mirabas ? 


What do you gaze at, Gil ? 


Gil. 


Gil. 


\ kj Menga ! 


Ah, Menga ! 


Tirfo. 


Tirfo. 


: Que te ha fucedido ? 


What has happen'd to you ? 


G//. 


GiL 


] Ay Tirfo ! 


Ah, Tirfo ! 


Torii>io. 


Toribio. 


I Que vifte ? Danos refpuefta. 


What have you feen? come, tell us 




quickly. 


Gil. 


GiL 


\ Ay Toribio ! 


Ah, Toribio ! 


Bras. 


Bras. 


Di, i que tienes. 


Say, what ails you. 


Gil, 6 de que te lamentas ? 


Gil, or wherefore do you figh fo ? 


Gil. 


Gil. 


i Ay Bras, ay amigos mios ! 


Ah! friend Bras, ah ! all my neigh hours. 


No lo fe mas que una beftia : 


Afs that I am, I know not why fo : 


Matole, y cargo con el. 


Him he kill'd, and raifed and carried 


Sin duda a falar le lleva. 


Off, I hav'n't a doubt, to pickle. 


Menga. 


Menga. 


I Quien le mato ? 


Who was it kill'd him ? 


Gil. 


Gil. 


; Que fe yo ? 


How do / know ? 


^ Tirfo, 


"Tirfo. 


1 Quien murio ? 


Whowaskiird? 


Gil. 


Gil. 


No fe quien era. 


I know not either. 


Tori&io. 


Toribio. 


I Quien cargo ? 


Who raifed him up ? 


Gil. 


GiL 


i Que fe yo quien ? 


How know I who did ? 


Bras. 


Bras. 


i Y quien le llevo ? 


Who carried him off? 


Gil. 


GiL 


Quien quiera. 


Whoe'er you like then : 



THE DEVOTION OF THE CROSS. 



23 



Pero porque lo fepais, 
Venid todos. 

Tirfo. 
I Do nos llevas ? 
Gil. 
No lo fe ; pero venid. 
Que los dos van aqui cerca. 

{Vanfe todos. 

Sala en Casa de Curcio, en Sena. 

Salen Julia ^ Arminda. 

Julia, 
Dejame, Arminda, llorar 
Una libertad perdida, 
Pues donde acaba la vida, 
Tambien acaba elpefar. 
I Nunca has vifto de una fuente 
Bajar un arroyo manfo, 
Siendo apacible defcanfo 
El valle de fu corriente ; 

Y cuando le juzgan fako 
De fuerza las flores bellas, 
Pafa por encima dellas, 
Rompiendo por lo mas alto ? 
Pues mis penas, mis enojos 

La mifma experiencia han hecho ; 
Detuvieronfe en el pecho, 

Y falieron por los ojos, 
Deja que llore el rigor 
De un padre. 

Arminda. 

Seiiora, advierte . . 
Julia. 
I Que mas venturofa fuerte 
Hay, que morir de dolor? 
Pena que deja vencida 
La vida, fer gloria ordena ; 



But to find out all about it 
Come with me. 

Tirfo. 
But where will you bring us ? 
Gil. 
I don't know, but come along 
For the two are not far diftant. 

\Exeunt. 

A ROOM IN CURCIO'S HOUSE AT SlENA. 

Enter Julia and Arminda. 

Julia. 
Let me weep, my faithful friend. 
Liberty's laft hope that leaves me. 
Since till death's cold hand relieves me. 
Can my forrow have no end. 
Haft thou ne'er, its fount outgrowing. 
Seen a gentle ftreamlet fleeing, 
Its fmooth peaceful pathway being 
The fweet valley of its flowing ; 
And when all the lovely flowers 
Thinkit fcarce has ftrength to move them, 
Lo ! the pent-up ftream above them 
Sweeps their lovelieft from the 

bowers ? — 
This, whereby the fair flower dies, 
Have my pains, my griefs efi^efted : 
In my breaft they were colledled. 
And they burft forth from mine eyes. 
Let me weep the cruelty 
Of a father. 

Arminda. 
Lady, fee ... . 
Julia. 
But what happier deftiny 
Is there, than of grief to die ? 
Pain that, vidlor of the ftrife. 
Conquers life is a glorious fate, — 



232 



LA DEFOCION DE LA CRUZ. 



Que no es muy grande la pena. 
Que no acaba con la vida. 

Arminda. 
I Que novedad obligo 
Tu llanto ? 

Julia. 

\ Ay, Arminda mia ! 
Cuantos papeles tenia 
De Eufebio, Lifardo hallo 
En mi efcritorio. 

Arminda. 

I Pues el 
Supo que eftaban alii ? 

Julia. 
Como aquefo contra mi 
Hara mi eftrella cruel. 
Yo, (; ay de mi !) cuando le via 
El cuidado con que andaba, 
Penfe que lo fofpechaba, 
Pero no que lo fabia. 
Llego a mi defcolorido, 

Y entre apacible y airado. 
Me dijo, que habia jugado, 
Arminda, y que habia perdido; 
Que una joya le preftafe 

Para volver a jugar. 
Por prello que la iba a dar. 
No aguardo a que la facafe : 
Tomo el la Have, y abrio . 
Con una colera inquieta, 

Y en la primera naveta 
Los papeles encontro. 
Mirome y volvio a cerrar. 

Y fin decir nada (j ay Dios !) 
Bufco a mi padre, y los dos 
Q Quien duda es para tratar 
Mi muerte ?) gran rato hablaroir 
Cerrados en fu apofento ; 
Salieron, y hacia el convento 



Since the pain cannot be great, 
Unto which fuccumbs not life. 

Arminda. 
But what new grief is the ground 
Of thefe tears ? 

Julia. 

Arminda mine. 
Of Eufebio, every line. 
By Lifardo has been found 
In my efcritoir. 

Arminda. 
Did he 
Know that they were there conceal'd ? 

Julia. 
This my cruel ftar reveal'd 
Shining balefully on me; 
I (ah me !) becaufe he grew. 
Plainly, hourly, more dejedled. 
Thought indeed that he fufpedled. 
But I did not think he knew. 
Thus he came, his hair was toft. 
Pale his cheek, his eye be tray 'd 
Peace and wrath, he faid he play'd 
Deep and long, that he had loft ; 
Luck was bad, and, to retrieve it, 
Afk'd me for fome trinkets' loan. 
Which to give I would have flown 
Had he waited to receive it ; 
But he, with an angry air. 
Seized the key, unlock'd the drawer. 
And within the efcritoir 
Found Eufebio's letters there. 
Coldly eyeing me, he ftraight 
Lock'd the drawer, faid naught, 

withdrew 
(God !) to feek my fire, the two, 
(Oh ! who doubts that the debate 
Turn'd up on my death r) difcourfe 
Held there long within his room. 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 233 


Los dos fus pafos guiaron. 


Then came forth, and through the gloom 


Segun Odlavio me dijo. 


To the convent bent their courfe. 


Y fi lo que efta tratado 


As O6lavio has told me. 


Ya mi padre ha efedluado. 


If then what was there projefted 


Con jufta caufa me aflijo ; 


By my father is effefted. 


Porque fi de aquefta fuerte. 


Juftly you in tears behold me ; 


Que olvide a Eufebio, defea. 


For if thus he feeks to try 


Antes que monja me vea. 


From Eufebio's love to free me. 


Yo mifma me dare muerte. 


Ere a nun he lives to fee me. 




By my own hands fhall I die. 


Sale EusEBio. 


EusEBio enters unfeen. 


Eufebio {aparte). 


Eufebio {afide). 


Ninguno tan atrevido. 


No one ever dared before, 


Si no tan defefperado. 


Defperate though his cafe might be. 


Viene a tomar por fagrado 


Thus to fly for fanftuary 


La cafa del ofendido. 


To the injured party's door ; 


Antes que fepa la muerte 


But my urgent fate compels me, 


De Lifardo Julia bella. 


Ere Lifardo's death be known. 


Hablar quiliera con ella. 


Ere fair Julia's love be grown 


Porque a mi tirana fuerte 


Into hate and fhe repels me. 


Algun remedio conligo. 


Quickly to anticipate 


Si, ignorado mi rigor. 


Rapid rumour's dread revealings. 


Puede obligarla el amor 


And by both our mutual feelings 


A que fe vaya conmigo ; 


Urge her to embrace my fate. 


Y cuando llegue a faber 


And to fly with me this hour : — 


De Lifardo el hado injuilo. 


Then, although his death muft pain her. 


Hara de la fuerza gufto. 


She will feel flie mull rellrain her. 


Mirandofe en mi poder. — 


Seeing that flie's in my power: — 


Hermofa Julia. 


\He advances. 




Beauteous Julia ! 


Julia. 


Julia. 


i Que es efto ? 


Can it be 


I Tu en ella cafa ? 


Thou art in this houfe ? 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


El rigor 


To prove 


De mi defdicha, y tu amor 


My misfortune and thy love. 


En tal peligro me ha puefto. 


I have run this rilk for thee. 



234 ^^ DEFOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Julia, 


Julia. 


\ Pues I como has entrado aqui. 


Oh ! why haft thou ventured here. 


1 Y emprendes tan loco extreme ? 


Such a wild attempt to try ? 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Como la muerte no temo. 


I am not afraid to die. 


Julia, 


Julia. 


\ I Que es lo que intentas all ? 


What's thy objeft ? — O my fear ! 


Eufebio, 


Eufebio. 


Hoy obligarte defeo. 


Julia, I have grown ambitious 


Julia, porque agradecida 


That this happy day at length 


1 Des a mi amor nueva vida. 


Should my love give newer ftrength. 


Nueva gloria a mi defeo. 


Newer glory to my wilhes. 


Yo he fabido cuanto ofende 


I have learn'd how much offended 


A tu padre mi cuidado. 


Is your father by my fuit. 


Que a fu noticia ha llegado 


That to him has come the bruit 


Nuellro amor, y que pretende 


Of our love, that 'tis intended. 


Que tu recibas maiiana 


Ere Ihall come to-morrow's e'en. 


El eftado que defea, 


Thou a ftate of life muft take. 


Para que mi dicha Tea, 


Which, he thinks, my blifs will make 


Como mi efperanza, vana. 


Vain as all my hopes have been. 


Si ha fido gufto, fi ha iido 


If with favour thou haft heard me 


Amor el que me has moftrado. 


Speak my love, nor yet reproved me. 


Si es verdad que me has amado. 


If 'tis certain thou haft loved me, 


Si es cierto que me has querido, 


If 'tis true thou haft preferr'd me, 


Vente conmigo ; pues ves 


Come then with me : lince 'tis plain 


Que no tiene reliftencia 


Thou can ft never make refiftance 


De tu padre la obediencia, 


To thy father's ftrong perfiftence, 


Deja tu cafa ; y defpues 


Leave thy houfe ; thy ftrength will gain 


Que habra mil remedios pienfa ; 


Thoufand aids when thou art hence ; 


Pues ya en mi poder, es jufto 


When thou'rt in my power 'twill be 


Que haga de la fuerza gufto. 


Beft to yield to fate's decree. 


Y obligacion de la ofenfa. 


And to pardon the offence. 


Villas tengo en que guardarte. 


Villas have I to rife o'er thee. 


Gente con que defenderte. 


Vaffals have I to defend thee. 


Hacienda para ofrecerte. 


Wealth and all its aids to tend thee. 


Y un alma para adorarte. 


And a true heart to adore thee. 


Si darme vida defeas. 


Wouldft thou ftay this life nigh fled. 


Si es verdadero tu amor. 


Doft thou worth a true love deem me. 


Atrevete, 6 el dolor 


Dare this ftep, or thou wilt fee me 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 235 

1 


HcLia. que mi muerte veas. 


Slain by grief, here lying dead. 


Julia. 


Julia. 


Oye, Eufebio. 


Oh ! Eufebio, hear .... 


Arminda. 


Arminda. 


Mi fenor 


My mafter 


Viene, feiiora. 


Comes, fenora. 


Julia. 


Julia. 


Ay de mi ! 


Woe is me ! 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


I Pudiera hallar contra mi 


Oh ! with what perfiftency 


La fortuna mas rigor ? 


Fortune dogs me with difafter ! j 


Julia. 


Julia. 1 


i Podra falir ? 


Can he not go forth ? 


Arminda. 


Arminda. 


No es pofible 


'Tis vain 


Que fe vaya ; porque ya 


To attempt it ; 'tis too late. 


Llamando a la puerta efta. 


For he's calling at the gate. 


Julia. 


Julia. 


\ Grave mal ! 


Dread mifchance ! 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


\ Pena terrible ! 


Terrific pain ! 


I Que hare ? 


What remains ? 


Julia. 


Julia. 


Efconderte es forzofo. 


Concealment folely. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


iDonde? 


Where? 


Julia. 


Julia. 


En aquefe apofento. 


Within this chamber here. 


Arminda. 


Arminda. 


Prefto, que fus pafos fiento. 


Quick ! his fteps are drawing near. 


\Efcondefe Eusebio. 


[EusEBio conceals himfelf. 


Sale CuRcio. 


Enter Curcio. 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


Hija, fi por el dichofo 


Daughter, if for that moft holy 


Ellado, que tu codicias. 


State thou long'ft for, that calm goal 


Y que ya feguro tienes. 


Which now crowns thy expeftations. 


No das a mis parabienes 


Thou, as my beft gratulations. 


La vida y alma en albricias. 


Yield'll not up thy heart and foul, j 



236 LJ DEVOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Del defeo que he tenido 


Then my zeal will be derided, 


No agradeces el cuidado. 


By thy ingrate heart eluded. 


Todo queda efedluado. 


Everything has been concluded. 


Y todo tan prevenido. 


I have everything provided ; 


Que folo falta ponerte 


There's but one thing to await. 


La mas bizarra y hermofa, 


In a rich robe to be clothed 


Para fer de Crifto efpofa ; 


As Chrift's veftal bride betrothed ; 


Mira \ que dichofa fuerte ! 


See now, what a happy fate ! 


Hoy aventajas a todas 


All the friends thy feaft invites 


Cuantas fe ven envidiar. 


Will be envious of thy mating. 


Pues te veran celebrar 


Since they'll fee thee celebrating 


Aqueftas divinas bodas. 


Thefe divineft marriage rites. 


I Que dices ? 


What then fay'ft thou ? 


Julia (apart e). 


Julia {a fide). 


I Que puedo hacer ? 


Woe the day ! 


Eufebio {aparte). 


Eufebio {afide). 


Yo me doy la muerte aqui, 


Here I'll give myfelf my death 


Si ella le dice que si. 


Ifthe fatal" Yes" fhe faith. 


Julia. 


Julia. 


No fe como refponder. — \_Aparte. 


(Ah ! I know not what to fay !) 


Bien, feiior, la autoridad 


\_Afide. 


De padre, que es preferida. 


Though a fire's authority 


Imperio tiene en la vida ; 


So endow'd, fo richly rife. 


Pero no en la libertad. 


Hath dominion over life. 


I Pues, que {iipiera antes yo 


It hath none o'er liberty. 


Tu intento, no fuera bien ? 


Wer't not right that I fhould know 


I Y que tu, feiior, tambien 


Earlier what thou tell'ft me now } 


Supieras mi gufto ? 


Wer't not proper, too, that thou 




Knew my wifhes likewife ? 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


No; 


No; 


Que fola mi voluntad. 


For my will alone fhould be 


En lo jufto, 6 en lo injufto. 


Ever facred in thy fight. 


Has de tener tu por gufto. 


Be the matter wrong or right. 


Julia. 


Julia. 


Solo tiene libertad 


Sir, the only liberty 


Un hijo para efcoger 


That a child has is to choofe 


Eftado ; que el hado impio 


In the world its fitting ftate ; 


No fuerza el libre albedrio. 


This no law or impious fate 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. . 237 


Dejame penfar y ver 


E'er fhould hinder or refufe. 


De efpacio efo ; y no te efpante 


Let me think awhile, nor fear 


Ver que termino te pida ; 


For this paufe to be petition'd. 


Que el eftado de una vida 


For a moment's infufficient 


No fe toma en un inftante. 


To decide a life's career. 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


Bafta que yo lo he mirado. 


'Tis enough that I've decided. 


Y yo por ti he dado el si. 


And have given the " Yes " for thee. 


Julia, 


Julia. 


Pues li tu vives por mi. 


Since my life thou liv'ft for me. 


Toma tambien por mi eftado. 


Take the ftate, too, thou'ft provided. 


Curcio, 


Curcio, 


J Calla, infame ! j calla, loca ! 


Silence, rebel ! filence, fool ! 


Que hare de aquefe cabello 


Left around thy neck I twine 


Un lazo para tu cuello. 


LaiTo-hke thofe locks of thine. 


O facare de tu boca 


Or permit my hands to pull 


Con mis manos la atrevida 


Out thy tongue, that like a knife 


Lengua, que de oir me ofendo. 


Cuts me to the heart to hear. 


Julia. 


Julia. 


La libertad te deliendo. 


'Tis the freedom I hold dear 


Seiior, pero no la vida. 


I defend, but not the hfe : — 


Acaba fu curfo trifte. 


Finifh its unhappy courfe. 


Y acabara tu pefar ; 


And thy grief conclude thereby. 


Que mal te puedo negar 


Since 'twere linful to deny 


La vida que tu me difte. 


That to thee who art its fource ; 


La libertad, que me dio 


What I wifh to have refpefted 


El cielo, es la que te niego. 


Is my freedom — Heaven's fole gift. 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


En efte punto a creer llego 


Now affurance doth uplift 


Lo que el alma fofpecho. 


Doubt from that I've long fufpeded. 


Que no fue buena tu madre. 


That my wife, your mother rather. 


Y mancho mi honor alguno ; 


Stain'd my life's elfe fpotlefs mirror. 


Pues hoy tu error importuno 


Since to day thy obftinate error 


Ofende el honor de un padre, 


Wounds the honour of a father. 


A quien el fol no igualo 


Who hath not the fun for equal. 


En refplandor y belleza. 


In its light and lovelinefs. 


Sangre, honor, luftre y nobleza. 


For blood, birth, and noblenefs. 


Julia. 


Julia. 


Efo no he entendido yo. 


Ere I fpeak, I wait the fequel. 



238 , LA DEFOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Por efo no he refpondido. 


As thy meaning is not clear. 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


Arminda, falte alia fuera.— 


Wait without, Arminda, go ! 


[Fafe Arminda. 


[Exit Arminda. 


y ya que mi pena fiera 


Seeing that my bitter woe. 


Tantos anos he tenido 


Which Fve held fo many a year 


Secreta, de mis enqjos 


Hidden, from its centre flies, 


La ciega pafion obliga 


And by pafTion rendered bold. 


A que la lengua te diga 


Makes thee by the tongue be told 


Lo que te han dicho los ojos. 


What's been told thee by the eyes. 


La Seiioria de Sena, 


This proud feigniory Siena, 


Por dar a mi fangre fama. 


To my blood to add new honour. 


En fu nombre me envio 


Sent me once to pay obedience. 


A dar la obediencia al Papa 


In its name, unto the Pontiff^, 


Urbano Tercio. Tu madre. 


The third Urban ; and thy mother. 


Que con opinion de fanta 


Who, reputed and acknowledged 


Fue en Sena comun ejemplo 


As a faint, was through Siena 


De las matronas romanas. 


Thought the univerfal model. 


Y aun de las nueftras, (no fe 


The bright copy and exemplar. 


Como mi lengua la agravia ; 


Of all matrons, of the Roman, 


Mas, J ay infelice ! tanto 


And even of our own : (I know not 


La fatisfaccion engana) 


How my tongue can dare to wrong her. 


En Sena quedo, y yo eftuve 


But alas ! the fatisfaftion 


En Roma con la embajada 


That feems fair deceives too often !) 


Ocho mefes ; porque entonces 


She remained behind ; I tarried 


Por concierto fe trataba. 


Eight months at the facred college 


Que efta Seiioria fuefe 


With the embaffy, at that time 


Del Pontifice ; Dios haga 


The idea being in progrefs 


Lo que a fu eftado convenga. 


'Bout the giving of Siena 


Que aqui importa poco, 6 nada. 


To the Pontiff, which fame projeft 


Volvi a Sena, y halle en ella .... 


May God fettle as befeems him ! 


(Aqui el aliento me falta. 


For 'tis here of flight importance. 


Aqui la lengua enmudece. 


On returning home, I found her .... 


Y aqui el animo defmaya) 


(Here the breath doth fail my body. 


Halle (jay injufto temor!) 


Here my tongue grows mute in fllence. 


A tu madre tan preiiada, 


Here my frighten'd courage falters,) 


Que para el infeliz parto. 


Found her . . . (hence, O coward fear!) 


Cumplia las nueve faltas. 


In her pregnancy fo forward. 


Ya me habia prevenido 


That for her unhappy burden 



THE DEVOTION OF THE CROSS. 



239 



Por fus mentirofas cartas 
Efta defdicha, diciendo. 
Que, cuando me fui, quedaba 
Con fofpecha ; y yo la tuve 
De mi defhonra tan clara. 
Que difcurriendo mi agravio. 
Imagine mi defgracia. 
No digo que verdad Tea ; 
Mas quien tiene fangre hidalga 
No ha de aguardar a creer, 
Que el imaginar le bafta. 
I Que importa que un noble fea 
Defdichado, (j oh ley tirana 
De honor ! j oh barbara fuero 
Del mundo !) 11 la ignorancia 
Le difculpa ? Mienten, mienten 
Las leyes ; porque no alcanza 
Los mifterios al efefto 
Quien no previene la caufa. 
I Que ley culpa a un inocente ? 
I Que opinion a un libre agravia ? 
Miente otra vez ; que no es 
Defhonra, fino defgracia. 
j Bueno es, que en leyes de honor 
Le comprenda tanta infamia 
Al Mercurio que le roba, 
Como al Argos que le guarda ! 
I Que deja el mundo, que deja, 
Si all al inocente infama, 
De defhonra, para aquel 
Que lo fabe y que lo calla ? 
Yo entre tantos penfamientos, 
Yo entre confufiones tantas, 
Ni vi regal o en la mefa, 
Ni hice defcanfo en la cama. 
Tan defabrido conmigo 
Eftuve, que me trataba 
Como ajeno el corazon, 
Y como a tirano el alma. 



She her nine months had accomplifh'd ; 

She already had forewarned me. 

In falfe lines of feeming fondnefs. 

Of this great misfortune, faying. 

When I left her, that the profpeft 

Seem'd moll likely : and fo patent 

Thought I then was my difhonour. 

That, deep brooding on my infult, 

I imagined my misfortune : 

That 'twas real I afTert not, 

Since what man whofe blood is noble 

Waits for proof, when 'tis fufficient 

To imagine it as proven ? 

What imports it that a noble 

Is unhappy (oh ! defpotic 

Law of honour ! oh ! flern edift 

Of the world !) when want of knowledge 

Exculpates him ? Lying, lying 

Laws are they, becaufe the mortal 

Should be blamed not for the ifTues 

Who the caufe hath not foreboded. 

What law proves the innocent guilty ? 

Blamelefs, what opinion wrongs them ? 

Lying laws once more : for then 'twere 

Not difhonour but misfortune. 

Is it right, by the laws of honour. 

That an equal infamy follows 

Him, the Argus who doth guard it. 

And the Mercury who robs it ? 

I, involved in fuch dark fancies, 

I, in fuch a maze involved. 

Found no folace at the table. 

No repofe upon the foft bed. 

And I grew fo difcontented 

With myfelf foon, that my cold heart 

Came to treat me as a ftranger. 

And my foul as not its owner. 

And though many a time I reafon'd 

With myfelf, and well-nigh proved her 



240 LA DEFOCION DE LA CRUZ. 


Y aunque a veces difcurria 


Innocent, I ftill was haunted 


En fu abono, y aunque hallaba 


With the fear fhe might have wrong'd me. 


Verisimil la difculpa. 


And though thus with full alTurance 


Pudo en mi tanto la inftancia 


She was chafte, I yet refolved 


Del temer que me ofendia. 


To avenge not her offences 


Que con faber que fue cafla. 


But the dark thoughts that engrofPd me. 


Tome de mis penfamientos. 


And more fecretly and MqIj 


No de fus culpas, venganza. 


That this Ihould be done, I order'd 


Y porque con mas fecreto 


A fiftitious hunt, for fidlions 


Fuefe, previne una caza 


Are the jealous man's fole comfort. 


Fingida, porque a un zelofo 


We departed to the mountain. 


Ficciones folo le agradan. 


And while all our friends difported 


Al monte fui, y cuando todos 


In the joyous recreation. 


Entretenidos eftaban 


I, with words of amorous fondnefs. 


En fu alegre regocijo. 


(Ah ! how eafily by falfehood 


Con amorofas palabras. 


Can fuch treacheries be fpoken ! 


(l Que bien las dice quien miente 1 


Ah ! how eafily be trufted 


i Que bien las cree quien ama !) 


By the fond heart of a lover !) 


Lleve a Rofmira, tu madre. 


Led thy mother, led Rofmira, 


For una fenda apartada 


By a path, that, through the copfes 


Del camino, y divertida 


Winding, from the roadway brought us 


Llego a una fecreta eftancia 


To a lone and diftant corner 


Defte monte, a cuyo albergue 


Of the mountain, to whofe entrance 


El fol ignore la entrada ; 


Scarce the fun reveal'd a portal. 


Porque fe la defendian 


It was fo completely hidden 


Rufticamente enlazadas. 


By the ruftic running over. 


For no decir que amorofas. 


Not to fay the amorous twining 


Arboles, hojas y ramas. 


Of leaves, trees, and thorns, and rofes. 


Aqui pues, adonde apenas 


Here, then, here, where human footftep 


Huella imprimio mortal planta. 


Scarce was planted till that moment. 


Solos los dos . . . . 


We two only .... 


Sale Arminda. 


Enter Arminda. 


Arminda. 


Arminda. 


Si el valor. 


If the firmnefs 


Que el noble pecho acompana. 


Which to noble brealls belongeth. 


Senor, y li la experiencia. 


If, fir, the dear-bought experience 


Que te han dado honrofas canas. 


Which has given thee honour'd hoar 


En la defdicha prefente 


hairs. 



THE DEVOTION 


1 
OF THE CROSS. 241 


No te niega 6 no te falta. 


In the prefence of this forrow 


Examen fera el valor 


Fail thee not nor fly thee wholly. 


De tu animo. 


It will be the teft and trial 




Of thy ftrength of mind. 


Curcio, 


Curcio. 


I Que caufa 


What objed 


Te obliga a que afi interrumpas 


Forces thee to interrupt me 


Mi razon ? 


Thus unfummon'd ? 


Arminda. 


Arminda, 


Serior .... 


Sir 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


Acaba ; 


Say fliortly 


Que mas la duda me ofende. 


What it is, for doubt is worfe flill. 


Julia. 


Julia. 


I Por que te fufpendes ? Habla. 


Speak ! Why paufe thus ? What doth 




flop thee ? 


Arminda. 


Arminda. 


No quiliera fer la voz 


That I may not be the voice 


De mi pena y tu defgracia. 


Of my pain, and thy misfortune. 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


No temas decirla tu. 


Be not thou afraid to tell 


Pues yo no temo efcucharla. 


What I fear not to have told me. 


Arminda. 


Arminda. 


A Lifardo, mi fefior .... 


Sir, oh ! fir, thy fon Lifardo .... 


Eujebio, 


Eufebio {at the fide). 


Efto folo me faltaba. 


This remain'd to overthrow me ! 


Arminda, 


Arminda. 


Baiiado en fu fangre traen 


Bathed in his blood, and lying 


En una filla por andas 


On a litter flretch'd, is borne here 


Cuatro rufticos paftores. 


By four ruftic fliepherd fwains. 


Muerto (j ay Dios !) a puiialadas ; 


Dead (O God !) from cuts and fword- 


Mas ya a tu prefencia llega : 


flabs; 


No le veas. 


But already he is here : — 




Look not on him. 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


J Cielos, tantas 


Heavens ! what torments 


Penas para un defdichado ! 


Numberlefs for one poor wretch here ! 


i Ay de mi ! 


Woe is me ! — 



1 1 



242 LA DEVOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Salen los Villanos con Lisardo muerto 


Enter Gil, Menga, Bras, Toribio, 


en una Jill a. 


and others, bearing a bier, upon which 




is the body ^Lisardo. 


Julia. 


Julia. 


Pues I que inhumana 


Unpitying monfter. 


Fuerza enfangrento la ira 


Who art thou whofe wrath is written 


En fu pecho ? i que tirana 


Blood-red on this breaft? What horrid 


Mano fe bano en mi fangre. 


Hand is bathed in my heart's blood ? 


Contra fu inocencia airada ? 


Anger'd by his innocence only ? 


i Ay de mi ! 


Woe is me ! 


Arminda. 


Arminda. 


Mira, fenora .... 


Refleft, fefiora .... 


Bras. 


Bras. 


No llegues a verle. 


Come not nearer ! 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


Aparta. 


Hence ! nor Hop me. 


Tirfo. 


Tirfo. 


Detente, fenor. 


Do hold back, fir. 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


Amigos, 


Friends, my heart 


No puede fufrirlo el alma. 


Leaves me powerlefs to withhold me. 


Dejadme ver efe cadaver frio. 


Let me behold this corfe, fo coldly lying. 


Depolito infeliz de heladas venas. 


The fad depofit now of frozen veins — 


Ruina del tiempo, eftrago del impio 


Ruin of time, dead fruit of fate undying. 


Hado, teatro funefto de mis penas. 


The fatal theatre of all my pains. 


{ Que tirano rigor (j ay hijo mio !) 


What tyrant wrath, a demon's wrath 


Tragico monumento en las arenas 


outvying, 


Conftruyo, porque hiciefe en quejas 


Raifed, O my fon, upon thefe crimfon'd 


vanas 


plains. 


Mortaja trifle de mis blancas canas ? 


This tragic pile, o'er which in forrow 


j Ay amigos 1 decid ; ^quienfue homicida 


bow'd 


De un hijo, en cuya vida yo animaba ? 


My white hairs ftreaming ferve thee 




as a Ihroud ? 




Tell me, my friends, what hand to 




mercy fteerd 




Slew this dear fon, in whom my life's 




blood lay ? 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 243 


Menga, 


Menga. 


Gil lo dira; que, al verle dar la herida. 


Gil, who was prefent, 'mong fome 


Oculto entre unos arboles eftaba. 


trees conceal'd. 




Saw him fall wounded in a defperate 




fray. 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


Di, amigo, di, i quien me quito efta 


Say, who was he who fent him 


vida ? 


unanneal'd 




Before his God, and fnatch'd from 




me to-day 




My life's beft life? 


Gil. 


Gil. 


Yo folo fe, que Eufebio fe llamaba. 


But this alone I know. 


Cuando con el renia. 


He call'd himfelf, I think, Eufebio. 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


{ Hay mas delhonra ? 


Eufebio ! thus my honour and my life 


Eufebio me ha quitado vida y honra. 


He robs relentlefs in his fatelefs mood! 


Difculpa ahora tu de fus crueles 


[To Julia. 


[^ Julia. 


Excufe him, prithee, thou his would- 


Defeos la ambicion ; di que concibe 


be wife ; 


Cafto amor, pues, a falta de papeles. 


Say the chafte eagernefs with which 


Lafcivos gullos con tu fangre efcribe. 


he wooed 




Caufed the flight error that produced 




this ftrife. 




He wanted ink, and fo he wrote in 




blood! 


Julia. 


Julia. 


Seiior .... 


Oh! fir 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


No me refpondas como fueles; 


Reply not in thy ufual way ; 


A tomar hoy eftado te apercibe. 


Hearmy commands and ftudy toobey. 


O apercibe tambien a tu hermofura 


Prepare to-day to feek the cloifter's gloom, 


Con Lifardo teraprana fepultura. 


Or elfe prepare in beauteous death 


Los dos a un tiempo el fentimiento 


to lie 


efquivo 


With young Lifardo in his early tomb : 


En efte dia fepultar concierta. 


At one fad moment both my children 


El muerto al mundo, en mi memoria 


die; 


vivo. 


Both fhare the fame and yet a ditterent 




doom ; 



244 ^-^ DEFOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Tu, viva al mundo, en mi memoria 


Both leave me lone, and yet how 


muerta. 


differently, — 


Y en tanto que el entierro os apercibo. 


One lives in memory, though his foul 


Porque no huyas, cerrare efta puerta. 


has fled. 


Queda con el, porque de aquefa fuerte 


And one, though living, feems to me as 


Lecciones al morir te de fu muerte. 


dead. 




Here, by thy brother's bloody bier, think 




(J cr 

The choice I give thee ; think what 




thou haft done ; 




Look on thefe tears and on that 




innocent gore, — 




A lire dilhonour'd and a murder'd fon ! 




Thou canft not fly, for I fhall lock this 




door. 




Here I fhall leave thee by this couch 




alone ; 




Look on this pallid form that here 




doth lie. 




And learn from it the way that thou 




fhalt die. 


[Vanfe todos^y queda Julia en medio de 


[Exeunt all but Julia, who fiands in 


LiSARDO J EusEBio, que fak por otra 


the middle of the fiage, between 


puerta. 


the dead body of Lisardo and 




EusEBio, who comes forth from his 




place of concealment. 


Julia. 


Julia.^ 


Mil veces procure hablarte. 


I attempt a thoufand times. 


Tirano Eufebio, y mil veces 


Dread Eufebio, to addrefs thee. 


El alma duda, el aliento 


And a thoufand times my breath 


Falta, y la lengua enmudece. 


Fails me, and my tongue is fetter'd. 


No fe, no fe como pueda 


Ah ! I know not, know not how \ 


Hablar ; porque a un tiempo vienen 


To addrefs thee, fince together 


Envueltas iras piadofas 


Pious anger fteels my heart. 


Entre piedades crueles. 


And unnatural piuy melts me. 


Quifiera cerrar los ojos 


I would wifh f(5 clofe mine eyes 


A aquefta fangre inocente, 


To this innocent blood here prefent. 


Que efta pidiendo venganza. 


Which, in aflcing vengeance, ftieds 


Defperdiciando claveles : 


Purple pinks o'er all this death- bed : 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS, 245 


Y quifiera hallar difculpa 


And I would find fome excufe 


En las lagrimas qae viertes ; 


In the tears I fee thou fheddeft : 


Que al fin heridas y ojos 


Since but tears and eyes alone 


Son bocas que nunca mienten. 


Are the mouths that lie not ever. 


y en una mano el amor, 


Thus on one hand here is love, 


Y en otra el rigor prefente. 


And on the other is refentment. 


A un mifmo tiempo quifiera 


And I would at one time wifli 


Caftigarte y defenderre. 


Both to punifti and defend thee ; 


Y entre ciegas confufiones 


And amid the wild confufion 


De penfamientos tan fuertes 


Of the paffionate thoughts that prefs me. 


La clemencia me combate. 


Now with clemency contend. 


Y el fentimiento me vence. 


Now to Ilerner duty nerve me. 


I Delia fuerte folicitas 


Is it in this way, Eufebio, 


Obligarme? ^-defta fuerte. 


Thou wouldil flio w thy wifh to ferve me ? 


Eufebio, en vez de finezas. 


Is it in this way thou giv'ft me 


Con crueldades me pretendes ? 


Cruelties and not carelfes ? 


Cuando de mi boda el dia 


When refolved, my marriage day 


Refuelta efperaba, { quieres 


I awaited, wouldil thou let me. 


Que, en vez de apacibles bodas. 


'Stead of peaceful bridal fealls. 


Trifles obfequias celebre ? 


Celebrate but fad interments ? 


Cuando por tu gufto era 


When I was, to make thee happy. 


A mi padre inobediente. 


To my father difobedient. 


I Lutos funeftos me das, 


Wouldil thou give me mourning robes 


En vez de galas alegres ? 


In the place of gala dreffes ? 


Cuando, arriefgando mi vida. 


When at riik of life I made it 


Hice polible el quererte. 


Poffible perchance to wed thee. 


I En vez de talamo (j ay cielos !) 


Is it not a bride-bed, (heavens !) 


Un fepulcro me previenes ? 


But a tomb thou wouldil prefent me? 


Y cuando mi mano ofrezco, 


When I offer thee my hand. 


Defpreciando inconvenientes 


Scorning all the fears fuggefted 


De honor, { la tuya banada 


By my honour, thine deep-dyed 


En mi fangre me la ofreces ? 


In my blood thou wouldil extend me ! 


^- Que gullo tendre en tus brazos. 


In thine arms what blifs were mine. 


Si para Ilegar a verme. 


If to reach them I beheld me 


Dando vida a nueftro amor. 


Giving life unto our love. 


Voy tropezando en la muerte ? 


Strugglingwithdeath'shand that ledme? 


{ Que dira el mundo de mi. 


What would fay the world of me. 


Sabiendo que tengo liempre. 


Knowing that I kept for ever. 


Si no prefente el agravio. 


If not prefent, the deep wrong. 



246 LA DEFOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Quien le cometio preiente ? 


The wrong-doer ever prefent ? 


Pues cuando quiera el olvido 


Since if in forgetfulnefs 


Sepultarle, folo el verte 


I would hide it, but to fee thee 


Entre mis brazos fera 


In my arms alone would be 


Memoria con que me acuerde. 


A dread memory and remembrance. 


Yo entonces, yo, aunque te adore. 


I then, I, though I adore thee. 


Los amorofos placeres 


Will love's joys fo fweet and tender 


Trocare en iras, pidiendo 


Change to anger, fternly calling 


Venganzas ; pues i como quieres 


For revenge ; fince wouldll thou, tell me. 


Que viva fujeta un alma 


Have a foul live on and be 


A efeftos tan dife rentes. 


To fuch different moods fubjefted, • 


Que efle efperando el caftigo. 


As to hope the chaftifement 


Y defeando que no llegue ? 


And yet wifh it not effedled ? 


Bafta, por lo que te quife. 


'Tis enough that I forgive thee. 


Perdonarte, fin que elperes 


Since I loved thee : but hope never 


Verme en tu vida, ni hablarme. 


In your life-time to fpeak with me. 


Efa ventana, que tiene 


Or to fee me. Look, this trellis. 


Salida al jardin, podra 


Opening on the garden, gives thee 


Darte pafo ; por ahi puedes 


A free exit : fly the peril. 


Efcaparte ; huye el peligro. 


That when back returns my father. 


Porque, li mi padre viene. 


Here he find thee not. In mercy 


No te halle aqui. Vete, Eufebio, 


Go, Eufebio, and no thought have 


Y mira que no te acuerdes 


More of me ; to-day for ever 


De mi ; que hoy me pierdes tu. 


Haft thou loft me. Since, to lofe me. 


Porque quififte perderme. 


Thus for ever thou preferreft. 


Vete, y vive tan dichofo. 


Go, then, go, and live fo happy. 


Que tengas felicemente 


So ferenely be poffefTor 


Bienes, fin que a los pefares 


Of life's bleffmgs, as to pay not 


Pagues penfion de los bienes. 


Sorrow's toll for being blefled. 


Que yo hare para mi vida 


I fhall make my narrow cell 


Una celda prifion breve. 


As a life-long prifon ferve me. 


Si no fepulcro, pues ya 


If not as a grave ; my father 


Mi padre enterrarme quiere. 


So deflring to inter me : 


Alii llorare defdichas 


There I'll weep o'er the misfortunes 


De un hado tan inclemente. 


Of a hard fate fo inclement. 


De una fortuna tan iiera. 


Of a fortune fo ungenial. 


De una inclinacion tan fuerte. 


Of a liking fo exceffive. 


De un planeta tan opuefto. 


Of a ftar fo unpropitious. 


De una eilrella tan rebelde. 


Of a planet fo averted. 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 247 


De un amor tan defdichado. 


Of a life's love fo unhappy. 


De una mano tan aleve. 


Of a hand whofe treacherous fternnefs 


Que me ha quitado la vida. 


Takes away my life indeed ; 


Y no me ha dado la muerte. 


Yet my death doth not prefent me. 


Porque entre tantos pefares. 


Since I muft amid fuch forrows 


Siempre viva, y muera fiempre. 


Live for ever, die for ever. 


Eujebio. 


Eufebio. 


Si acafo mas que tus voces 


If by any chance thy hands 


Son ya tus manos crueles 


Can more cruelly avenge thee 


Para tomar la venganza. 


Than already have thy words, 


Rendido a tus pies me tienes. 


At thy feet, fee, I furrender. 


Prefo me trae mi delito. 


Here my crime has led me captive. 


Tu amor es la carcel fuerte. 


Love for thee is my ftrong cell here. 


Las cadenas Ton mis yerros. 


Mine own failings are my chains. 


Prifiones que el alma teme, 


Bonds at which the feared foul trembles; 


Verdugo es mi penfamiento; 


The flern headfman is my thought : 


Si Ton tus ojos los jueces. 


If the judges are prefented 


Y ellos me dan la fentencia. 


By thine eyes, my doom muft be 


Por fuerza fera de muerte. 


Death, if they pronounce the fentence. 


Mas dira entonces la fama 


But then Fame, my fate proclaiming. 


En fu pregon : " efle muere. 


Will declare, "This man met death here 


Porque quifo ;" pues que folo 


For his love" — becaufe in loving 


Es mi delito quererte. 


Thee alone have I offended. 


No pienfo darte difculpa ; 


I attempt not to excufe me, — 


No parezca que la tiene 


Vain, it feems, would fuch attempt be. 


Tan grande error, folo quiero 


For fo great a fault : I only 


Que me mates y te vengues. 


Wifh thou'dft kill me, and avenge thee. 


Toma efta daga, y con ella 


Take this dagger, and with it 


Rompe un pecho que te ofende, 


Pierce a bofom that offends thee. 


Saca un alma que te adora, 


Break a fond heart that adores thee. 


Y tu mifma fangre vierte. 


And in mine thine own blood fhed 


Y fi no quieres matarme. 


here. 


Para que a vengarfe llegue 


If to kill me thou declineft. 


Tu padre, dire que eftoy 


That thy father for his vengeance 


En tu apofento. 


May return, I'll fay I'm hid here 




In thy chamber. 


Julia. 


^^^'■^- . ... 


I Detente ! 


Oh ! arreft thee ! 


Y por ultima razon. 


Stay ! and as the laft requeft 



248 LA DEFOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Que he de hablarte eternamente. 


I may make of thee for ever. 


Has de hacer lo que te digo. 


Grant the favour that I aik thee. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Yo lo concedo. 


I concede it. 


Julia. 


Julia. 


Pues vete 


Flee, oh ! flee hence. 


Adonde guardes tu vida ; 


Where thou may'ft preferve thy life : 


Hacienda denes, y gente 


Thou hall property and people 


Que te podra defender. 


Who for thy defence are able. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Mejor fera que yo quede 


It v^ere better that I ftay'd here 


Sin ella ; porque fi vivo. 


Without it : for if I live. 


Sera irapofible que deje 


From adoring thee I never 


De adorarte, y no has de eftar. 


Can defift ; nor ihalt thou be 


Aunque un convento te encierre. 


Safe, although a convent's fhelter 


Segura. 


Seem to guard thee. 


Julia. ^ 


Julia. 


Guardate tu ; 


Guard thou thee ; 


Que yo fabre defenderme. 


I fhall know how to defend me. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


I Volvere yo a verte ? 


Once more fhall I fee thee ? 


Julia. 


Julia. 


No. 


No. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


I No hay remedio ? 


No refource ? 


Julia, 


Julia. 


No le efperes. 


Do not expeft it. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


I Que al fin me aborreces ya ? 


Ami then detefted fo ? 


Julia. 


Julia. 


Hare por aborrecerte. 


I have reafon to detell thee. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


I Olvidarafme ? 


Wilt forget me ? 


Julia, 


Julia. 


Nofe. 


I don't know. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio, 


I Verete yo ? 


Shalll fee thee? 


Julia, 


Julia, 


Eternamente. 


Never, never. 



THE DEVOTION OF THE CROSS. 



249 



EuJ 
Pues ^ aquel pafado amor . . . . ? 

Julia, 
Pues I efta fangre prefente . . . . ? 
La puerta abren ; vete, Eufebio. 

Eufebio. 
Ire por obedecerte. 
J Que no he de volverte a ver ! 

Julia, 
j Que no has de volver a, verme ! 
\Suena ruido, vanfe los dos, cada 
uno por fu parte, y entran elcuerpo 
algunos criados. 



Eufebio, 
What then of our fond love pafl ? — 

Julia, 
What then of this red blood prefent? — 
Lo ! the door ! Eufebio, fly ! 

Eufebio. 
I fhall go, but through obedience : — 
Oh ! to fee thee never more ! 

Julia, 
Oh ! that thou no more muft fee me ! 
\A noife is heard outfide ; they go out 
at oppofite doors, andferva7its eyiter 
and remove the body. 




KK 




JORNADA II. 

Monte. 



Difparan dentro nn arcabux, y fa/en 
RiCARDO, Celio J EusEBio en trage de 
bandoleros, con arcabuces. 

^ Ricardo. 
[ASO el plomo violenro 
Su pecho. 
Celio. 
Y hace el golpe mas 
fangriento. 
Que con fu fangre la tragedia imprima 
En tierna flor. 

Eufebio, 

Ponle una Cruz encima, 
Y perdonele Dios. 




ACT II. 

The Mountain. A rude Cross at one 

SIDE, WITH several OTHERS IN THE 

DISTANCE.* 

A /hot is heard within: enter Ricardo, 
Celio, ^/?^Eusebio, drejfed as bandits, 
and armed with arquebufes. 

Ricardo. 
HAT ball of winged lead 
Pafs'd through his breall. 

Celio. 
And made a wound fo red, 
That the fad tale o'er all the tender mofs 
Is writ in blood. 

Eufebio. 
Put over him a crofs. 
And God be merciful to his foul. 




* M. Philarete Chafles greatly aflifts the imagination in its efforts to realize the externals of this 
fcene j — 

" Dans une gorge de montagne, au fein d'une folitude apre et fauvage, loin de tous les chemins 
frequentes, au milieu de rocs bronzes par la pluie, jaunis fous le foleil, et de grands blocs de pierre 
fuperpofes, aux aretes aigues qui fe deflinent durement a Thorizon, il y a une grande croix, formee 
de deux debris de chene que I'outil du charpentier n'a pas meme equarres. C'eft un de ces payfages 
aux couleurs tranchees, aux lignes aigues, qui s'accordent avec toutes les penfees terribles, et toutes 
les fureurs de I'ame. La doivent fe refugier les bandoleros ; la des ennemis acharnes doivent com- 
mencer et finir un combat mortel. 

" C'eft la auffi que Calderon place fes afteurs." — Etudes fur VEjpagne, p. 43. 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 251 


Ricardo. 


Ricardo. 


Las devociones 


Right notions. 


Nunca faltan del todo a los ladrones. 


Thieves though v^^e be, we've got of 




our devotions. 


[Fanfe Ricardo j Celio. 


\_Exeunt Ricardo and Celio. 


Eufehio. 


Eufehio. 


Y pues mis hados fieros 


Since then by fate's command 


Me traen a capitan de bandoleros, 


I now am captain of a robber-band. 


Llegaran mis delitos 


Be my oiFences from this day 


A fer, como mis penas, infinites. 


Great as my griefs, and infinite as they. 


Como fi diera muerte 


Treating Lifardo's death as if it were 


A Lifardo a traicion, de aquefta fuerte 


By treachery caufed and not in duel fair. 


Mi patria me perfigue. 


My country fo purfued me with its hate. 


Porque fu furia y mi defpecho obligue 


So great its fury, and my wrath fo great. 


A que guarde una vida. 


I was compell'd, a barbarous murderer 


Siendo de tantas barbaro homicida. 


grown. 


Mi hacienda me han quitado. 


Full many a life to take to fave my own. 


Mis villas confifcado. 


My property they fequeftrated, 


Y a tanto rigor llegan. 


My villas all they confifcated, — 


Que el fullento me niegan. 


Their rigour fo increafed, that they 


No toque pafagero 


My very means offuftenance took away; 


El termino del monte, li primero 


Therefore no traveller more 


No rinde hacienda y vida. 


Shall pafs the mountain's boundary before 




Money and life he yield me on the fpot. 


Sakn Ricardo y Bandoleros con 


Enter Ricardo and handits leading 


Alberto. 


in Alberto. 


Ricardo. 


Ricardo. 


Llegando a ver la boca de la herida, 


Going to fee the place where he was 


Efcucha, Capitan, el mas extraiio 


{hot,-— 


Sucefo. 


Oh ! liften, captain, nothing has come 




For downright wonder. [near it 


Eufehio. 


Eufehio. 


Ya defeo el defengano. 


Then I wifli to hear it. 


Ricardo. 


Ricardo. 


Halle el plomo defhecho 


I found the bullet prefs'd 


En efte libro que tenia en el pecho. 


Againll this book he carried in his breaft; 


Sin haber penetrado. 


The book unpierced, his breaft without 


Y al caminante folo defmayado : 


a wound. 



252 LA DEFOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Vefle aqui fano y bueno. 


For the feared traveller had only 




fwoon'd ; — 




Here fee him fafe and found once more. 


Eufebio, 


Eufebio, 


De efpanto eftoy, y admiraciones lleno. 


Terror and wonder thrill me to the 


I Quien eres, venerable 


core 1 — 


Caduco, a quien los cielos admirable 


Who art thou, venerable fage. 


Han hecho con prodigio milagrofo ? 


Whom Heaven hath made the wonder 




of the age. 




Working for thee a miracle fo great ? 


Alberto. 


Alberto. 


Yo foy, Capitan, el mas dichofo 


I am, O captain, the mofl fortunate 


De cuantos hombres hay; que he 


Of all mankind, although in worth the 


merecido 


leaft. 


Ser Sacerdote indigno, y he leido 


Since I have merited to be a prieft. 


En Bolonia fagrada Teologia 


For four-and-forty years I read with 


Cuarenta y cuatro aiios con defvelo ; 


care 


Diome fu Santidad, por efte zelo. 


Sacred theology from Bologna's chair. 


De Trento el Obifpado, 


His Holinefs, for all the years thus ipent. 


Premiando mis efludios ; y admirado 


Gave me the Biihopric of Trent, 


Yo de ver, que tenia 


Rewarding thus my ftudious zeal long 


Cuenta te tantas almas. 


ihown; 


Y que apenas la daba de la mia. 


But I afraid, from confcious qualms. 


Los laureles deje, deje las palmas. 


To account for others' fouls that fcarce 


Y huyendo fus enganos. 


can fave mine own. 


Vengo a bufcar feguros defengaiios 


Fled its laurels, fled its palms. 


En ellas foledades, 


And the world's deceits rejefting. 


Donde viven defnudas las verdades. 


Sought fecurer peace, felefting 


Pafo a Roma, a que el Papa me conceda 


Thefe remote and lonely dells. 


Licencia, Capitan, para que pueda 


Where nought but naked truth aufterely 


Fundar un orden fanto de eremitas. 


dwells. 


Mas tu faiia atrevida 


I was going to Rome, with hope 


Quita el hilo a mi fuerte y a la vida. 


Of obtaining licence from the Pope 




To found, O captain, 'mid thefe heights. 




A holy order of lone eremites. 


1 


When thy rage fo defperate 




Sever'd my thread of life, and changed 




my fate. 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 253 


Eufebio, 


Eufebio. 


I Que libro es efte, di ? 


Tell me, what book is this ? 


Alberto. 


Alberto. 


Efte es el fruto. 


It is the fruit 


Que rinde a mis eftudios el tributo 


Which many a year's hard ftudy in 


De tantos anos. 


purfuit 




Of truth has given me. 


Eufebio, 


Eufebio. 


I Que es lo que contiene ? 


What does it contain ? 


Alberto. 


Alberto. 


El trata del origen verdadero 


It treats of the true hiftory 


De aquel divino y celeftial madero, 


Of that divine and holy tree 


En que animofo y fuerte. 


On which by yielding up his mighty 


Muriendo, triunfo Crifto de la muerte. 


breath 


El libro, en fin, fe llama 


Chrift died, and, dying, triumph'd over 


" Milagros de la Cruz." 


death. 




The book is call'd by the appropriate 




name. 




« The Miracles of the Crofs." 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


\ Que bien la llama 


How well the flame 


De aquel plomo inclemente. 


Of the fierce bullet knew what to obey, 


Mas que la cera, fe moftro obediente ! 


When, foft as wax, the ftubborn lead 


i Pluguiera a Dios, mi mano 


gave way ! 


Antes, que bianco fu papel hiciera 


Oh ! would to God ! that ere my hand's 


De aquel golpe tirano. 


wild rage 


Entre fu fuego ardiera ! 


Had dared to do a deed fo dire. 


Lleva ropa y dinero 


As to deface this fpotlefs page 


Y la vida, folo efte libro quiero ; 


By that rude ftiot, 'twere burn'd in its 


Y vofotros falidle acompanando, 


own fire ! 


Hafta dejarle libre. 


Keep thou thy money, life, and drefs. 




This book alone is all I would pofTefs : 




Do you, my comrades, guide him on 




his way 




Till you can fet him free. 


Alberto, 


Alberto. 


Ire rogando 


And I ftiall pray, 


Al Seiior, te de luz para que veas 


Each ftep I take, that God may thee 


El error en que vives. 


infpire 



254 



LA DEFOCION DE LA CRUZ. 



Eufebio. 

Si defeas 
Mi bien, pidele a Dios, que no permita 
Muera fin confeiion. 

Alberto. 

Yo te prometo. 
Sere miniflro en tan piadofo efeto, 
Y te doy mi palabra, 
(Tanto en mi pecho tu clemencia labra) 
Que fi me llamas en cualquiera parte, 
Dejare mi delierto, 
Por ir a confefarte : 
Un Sacerdote foy, mi nombre Alberto. 



Eufebio. 
I Tal palabra me das ? 
Alberto, 

Y la conliefo 
Con la mano. 

Eufebio. 
Otra vez tus plantas befo. 
\Vafe Alberto con Ricardo y los 
Bandoleros, 

Sale Chilindrina. 

Chilindrina. 
Hafta venir a hablarte. 
El monte atravefe de parte a parte. 

Eufebio. 
Que hay, amigo ? 

Chilindrina. 

Dos nuevas harto malas. 
Eufebio. 
A mi temor el fentimiento igualas. 
Que fon ? 



To know thy fmful life. 
Eufebio. 

Doft thou defire 
My welfare? Then afk God that I may 

not 
Without confeffion die. 
Alberto. 

I promife thee 
Thy helper in that pious wifh to be ; 
Yes, I pledge to thee my word, 
(So much thy clemency my heart hath 

Hirr'd,) 
That in whatever place thou wilt addrefs 

me. 
In my defert I fhall own thy claim. 
And haften to confefs thee : 
I am a prieft, Alberto is my name. 

Eufebio. 
Thy word doll give me ? 
Alberto. 

Let my hand repeat 
The promife thus. 

Eufebio. 
Once more I kifs thy feet. 
[Alberto is led out by Ricardo 
and the other bandits. 

Enter Chillindrina. 

Chtllindrina. 
Up this wild mountain's fteep acclivity 
I've roam'd through every part to fpeak 
with thee. 

Eufebio. 
What brings thee, friend? 
Chillindrina. 

Two bits of evil news. 
Eufebio. 
Terror and grief my feelings interfufe : 
What are they ? 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 255 


Chilindrina, 


Chillindrina. 


Es la primera. 


The firft is. 


(Decirla no quiliera) 


(I would that I had not to tell thee 


Que al padre de Lifardo 


this,) 


Han dado .... 


Unto Lifardo*s father by the Hate 




Is given .... 


Eufebto. 


Eufebio, 


Acaba, que el efefto aguardo. 


Conclude, the whole refult I wait. 


Chilindrina, 


Chillindrina. 


Comifion de prenderte 6 de matarte. 


Commiffion or to feize thee or to flay 




thee. 


E life bio. 


Eufebio, 


Efotra nueva temo 


Thy fecond news I fear 


Mas, porque en un confufo extremo 


More than the firfl ; becaufe, on flretch 


Al corazon parece que camina 


to hear, 


Toda el alma, adivina 


My troubled foul flies to my trembling 


De algun future dano. 


heart 


I Que ha fucedido ? 


Confufed, difturb'd, divining that thou 




art 
The bearer of bad tidings of worfe pain : 




What then has happen'd ? 


Chilindrina, 


Chillindrina. 


A Julia 


Julia 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


No me engano 


Not in vain 


En prevenir triftezas. 


My boding forrows whifper'd from 


Si para ver mi mal, por Julia empiezas. 


within, — 


I Julia no me dijifte ? 


If thou haft evil news, with Julia thou'lt 


Pues efo bafta para verme trifle. 


begin : 


i Mal haya amen la rigurofa eftrella. 


Saidfl thou not Julia? more thou need'ft 


Que me oblige a querella ! 


not add. 


En fin, Julia .... profigue. 


For that is quite enough to make me 

fad. 
Accursed be the baneful ftar above her 






That forces me to love her ! 




Julia in fine .... proceed. 


Chilindrina. 


Chillindrina. 


En un convento 


Is by her friends 


Seglar efta. 


Placed in a convent. 



256 LA DEFOCION 


DE LA CRUZ, 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


\ Ya falta el fufrimiento ! 


My endurance ends ! 


i Que el cielo me caftigue 


Oh ! that Heaven Ihould have decreed 


Con tan grandes venganzas 


Its vengeful bolts to launch at me fo 


De perdidos defeos. 


faft! 


De muertas efperanzas. 


My loft defires — 


Que de los mifmos cielos. 


My hopes all paft — 


Por quien me deja, vengo a tener zelos ! 


And now the heaven Ihe leaves me for 


Mas ya tan atrevido. 


requires 


Que viviendo matando. 


I Ihould be jealous even of heaven at 


Me fuftento robando, 


laft. 


No puedo fer peor de lo que he lido : 


But fo bold am I, fo changed my mien. 


Defpeiiefe el intento. 


Who in murder can difport me. 


Pues ya fe ha defpeiiado el penfamiento. 


Who by robbing can fupport me, 


Llama a Celio y Ricardo. (Amando 


Worfe I cannot be than I have been. 


muero !) 


Let then the daring deed be v^^rought. 




In faft, fince I have dared it in my 


• 


thought : 




Call Celio and Ricardo. (Ah ! love 




leads me to my bier !) 


Chilindrina. 


Chillindrina, 


Voy por ellos. W^f^- 


I go to call them. [Exit. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Ve, y diles, que aqui efpero. — 


Go, and fay I wait them here. — 


Afaltare el convento que la guarda. 


I Ihall fcale the convent that doth hold her. 


Ningun grave caftigo me acobarda ; 


No fear fhall fright me, till thefe arms 


Que por verme fenor de fa hermofura. 


enfold her ; 


Tirano amor me fuerza 


Since to fee me mafter of her charms 


A acometer la fuerza. 


Tyrant love's tumultuous courfe 


A romper la claufura. 


Forces me to truft to force ; 


Y a violar el fagrado ; 


To fill her cloifter with alarms. 


Que ya del todo eftoy defefperado. 


To violate a conlecrated place. 


Pues li no me pufiera 


Since defperate have I grown and loft 


Amor en tales puntos. 


to every grace ; 


Solamente lo hiciera 


Though if love that brings me to it 


Por cometer tantos delitos juntos. 


Were not enough to make this deed be 




done. 




I for this alone would do it, [in one. 




That all poffible crimes I might commit 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 257 


Salen Gil y Menga. 


Enter Gil and Menga. 


Menga. 


Menga. 


\ Mas que encontramos con el. 


But if we fhould meet him here ! 


Segun mezquina naci! 


Born to all bad luck am I ! 


Gil. 


Gil. 


I Menga, yo no voy aqui? 


Don't you fee that I am by. 


No temas efe cruel 


Menga mine ? So do not fear 


Capitan de bunuleros. 


This bold captain of banditti. 


Ni el hallarlo te alborote. 


This cantankerous curmudgeon. 


Que honda llevo yo, y garrote. 


While I carry fling and bludgeon. 


Menga. 


Menga, 


Temo, Gil, fus hechos iieros ; 


Ah ! I fear, and more's the pity. 


Si no, a Silvia a mirar ponte. 


Left, like Silvia, fuch another 


Cuando aqui la acometio ; 


Trick in my cafe fhould be play'd. 


Que doncella al monte entro. 


Who to the mountain came a maid. 


Y dueria falio del monte. 


And went out of the mount a mother; 


Que no es peligro pequefio. 


'Tis no trifling rifk to run. 


Gil. 


Gil. 


Conmigo fuera cruel. 


Mine will be the danger rather 


Que tambien entro doncel. 


To come out, perchance, a father. 


Y pudiera falir duerio. 


Having gone in but a fon. 


\Reparan en Eusebio. 


[They perceive Eusebio. 


Menga, 


Menga. 


1 Ah feiior ! que va perdldo. 


Ah ! fir, you are loft ! this fpot 


Que anda Eufebio por aqui. 


Is Eufebio's haunt, they fay. 


Gil. 


Gil. 


No eche, feiior, por ahi. 


Do not venture, fir, that way. 


Eufebio {aparte). 


Eufebio [afide). 


Eftos no me han conocido. 


It is plain they know me not : 


Y quiero difimular. 


I'll diffemble in their prefence. 


Gil. 


Gil. 


I Quiere que aquefe ladron 


Would you have the robber flay you ? 


Le mate ? 


Stop, fir ! 


Eufebio (^aparte). 


Eufebio. 


Villanos fon. — 


How can I repay you 




[afide. 


I Con que podre yo pagar 


For this good advice ? (But peafants 


Efte avifo ? 


Are they). 



258 LA DEFOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Gil. 


Gil. 


Con huir. 


Juft by iimply flying 


De efe bellaco. 


From the rafcal. 


Menga. 


Menga. 


Si OS coge. 


If he catch you. 


Senor, aunque no le enoje 


In a moment he'll difpatch you. 


Ni vueftro hacer, ni decir. 


Though you ne'er, his temper trying. 


Luego OS matara ; y creed, 


Wrong'd him, or provoked his flaver 


Que con poner, tras la ofenfa. 


By a word or deed. When dead 


Una Cruz encima, pienfa. 


He'll a crofs place at your head. 


Que OS hace mucha merced. 


Thinking he confers a favour. 


Salen Ricardo y Celio. 


Enter Ricardo and Celio. 


Ricardo. 


Ricardo, 


I Donde le dejafte ? 


Here you left him ? 


Celio. 


Celio. 


Aqui. 


Here, I fay. 


Gil. 


Gil {to Eufebio). 


Es un ladron, no le efperes. 


Quick 1 don't wait the robber, go ! 


Ricardo. 


Ricardo. 


Eufebio, i que es lo que quieres ? 


What's your wifh, Eufebio ! 


Gil. 


Gil. 


I Eufebio le llamo ? 


Eufebio did he call him ? 


Menga. 


Menga. 


Si. 


Yea. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Yo foy Eufebio ; ^' que os mueve 


That's my name : what ails you? pooh ! 


Contra mi ? i No hay quien refponda ? 


In a moment why fo Hill ? 


Menga. 


Menga. 


Gil, I tienes garrote y honda ^ 


Where's the fling and bludgeon, Gil ? 


Gil. 


Gil. 


Tengo el diabro que te lleve. 


Where's the devil except in you ? 


Celio. 


Celio. 


Por los apacibles llanos. 


Where the peaceful vales expand 


Que hace del monte la falda. 


At this mountain's foot, that fwelleth 


A quien guarda el mar la efpalda. 


O'er the fea which it expelleth. 


Vi un efcuadron de viilanos. 


I have feen a fliepherd band 


Que armado contra ti viene. 


Coming in a well-arm'd crowd. 


Y pienfo que fe avecina ; 


Seeking thee, nor long it tarries. 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 259 


Que afi Curcio determina 


Since 'tis here : thus Curcio carries 


La venganza que previene. 


Out the vengeance he hath vow'd. 


Mira que pienfas hacer ; 


Think now what is beft to do. 


Junta tu gente, y partamos. 


Summon all the troop and try ... . 


Eufebio, 


Eufebio. 


Mejor es que ahora huyamos ; 


It is bell that now we fly. 


Que efta noche hay mas que hacer. 


Since to-night there's much to do. 


Venid conmigo los dos. 


Come with me, ye two, whom I 


De quien juftamente fio 


With a confidence fo juft 


La opinion y el honor mio. 


Honour and my fame entruft. 


Ricardo. 


Ricardo, 


Muy bien puedes ; que por Dios, 


So you may, for we would die 


Que he de morir a tu lado. 


At your lide our zeal to fhow. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Villanos, vida teneis. 


Peafants, know I let you live 


Solo porque le lleveis 


But for this, that you may give 


A mi enemigo un recado. 


A brief meifage to my foe ; 


Decid a Curcio, que yo 


This from me to Curcio fpeak : — 


Con tanta gente atrevida 


With the brave bands that attend me 


Solo defiendo la vida. 


I will for my life defend me ; 


Pero que le bufco no. 


But that his I do not feek. 


Y que no tiene ocalion 


And that he hath got no reafon 


De bufcarme defta fuerte. 


For purfuing me in this way. 


Pues no di a Lifardo muerte 


Since if I his fon did flay 


Con engaiio, 6 con traicion. 


'Twas not foully or by treafon ; 


Cuerpo a cuerpo le mate. 


Arm'd as he I flood before him. 


Sin ventaja conocida, 


Vantage none on either fide. 


Y antes de acabar la vida 


True, he fell, but, ere he died. 


En mis brazos le lleve 


In thefe very arms I bore him 


Adonde fe confefo, 


Where his fms he might confefs. 


Digna accion para eftimarfe ; 


Ad more worthy praife than blame ; 


Mas que H quiere vengarfe. 


But if vengeance be his aim. 


Que he de defenderme yo. — 


I'll defend me ne'erthelefs. 


\^A los Bandoleros. 


\To the Robbers. 


Y ahora, porque no vean 


Now that thefe two may not fee 


Aqueftos por donde vamos. 


By what road our troop is wending. 


Atadlos entre eftos ramos : 


Tie them to thefe boughs here bending; 


Vendados fus ojos fean. 


Let their eyes, too, bandaged be. 


Porque no avifen. 


That they may not tell aught. 



26o LA DEFOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Ricardo, 


Ricardo. 


Aqui 


Try 


Hay cordel. 


This good cord, 'twill do. 


Celio. 


Celio. 


Pues llega prefto. 


Make faft then. 


GiL 


Gil. 


De San Sebaftian me han puello. 


See me tied like Saint Sebaftian ! 


Menga. 


Menga. 


De San Sebaftiana a mi. 


Saint Sebaftiana am I. 


Mas ate cuanto quifiere. 


Tightly as you like, fir, tie. 


Senor, como no me mate. 


Only don't quite crucify me. 


Gil. 


Gil. 


Oye, fenor, no me ate. 


Ah ! fir, liften, do not tie me. 


Y puto fea yo, li huyere. 


And I'll fwear I will not fly : 


Jura tu, Menga, tambien 


Menga, too, will fwear pell-mell 


Efte mifmo juramento. 


All the oaths that you can mention. 


Celio. 


Celio. 


Ya ellan atados. 


Now they're faften'd. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Mi intento 


My intention 


Se va ejecutando bien ; 


Has been carried out right well. 


La noche amenaza obfcura. 


Now night threatens, and its footy 


Tendiendo fu negro velo. 


Veil draws o'er the face of even. 


Julia, aunque te guarde el cielo. 


Julia, fpite of hell or heaven. 


He de gozar tu hermofura. 


Soon I fhall polTefs thy beauty. 


\VanJe los Bandoleros y dejando a 


\_The Bandits depart, leaving Gil 


Gil j Menga atados. 


and Menga tied. 


Gil. 


Gil. 


I Quien habra que ahora nos vea. 


Who that faw us to this willow 


Menga, aunque caro nos cuelle. 


Tied here, Menga, wouldn't fay. 


Que no diga, que es aquelle 


Here's a pair condemn'd to-day 


Peraivillo de la aldea ? 


By theparilh Peraivillo?* 


Menga. 


Menga. 


Vete Uegando hacia aqui. 


Gil, as I can't get near you. 


* Peraivillo is the name of a fmall town nea 


r Ciudad-Rodrigo, where the archers of the Holy 


Brotherhood were accuftomed to execute without 


trial all criminals found in the aft of committing 


their offences. From this circumftance, very 


rapid juftice in Spain went by the name of La 


j jujlice de PeraWillo. — M. Damas-Hinard. 




j Perhaps " Lynch Law" would beft exprefs it 


s meaning in Englifh. — Tr. 



THE DEVOTION OF THE CROSS. 



261 



Gil ; que yo no puedo andar. 


You come here, now don't deny me. 


Gil. 


Gil. 


Menga, venme a defatar, 


Menga, come here and untie me. 


Y te defatare a ti 


And I'll then untie you too. 


Luego al punto. 


In a twinkling. 


Menga. 


Menga. 


Ven primero 


Come you firft. 


Tu, que ya efias importune. 


Since you are fo haft% you know. 


Gi/. 


Gil. 


J Es decir, que vendra alguno ? 


Come, come, anyone, high or low ! 


Pondre que falta un arriero, 


Would to God that at the worll 


Las tres anades cantando. 


Some gay muleteer loud trolling 


Un caminante pidiendo. 


A light lilt, fome nun her pfalms. 


Un eftudiante comiendo. 


Some poor fcholar aiking alms. 


Una fantera rezando. 


Some foot-traveller flowly flrolling. 


Hoy en aquefte camino. 


Would but take this road to-day. 


Lo que a ninguno falto : 


So that help may fail not wholly ! — 


Mas la culpa tengo yo. 


Oh ! my loofe tongue and my folly ! 


Una vox {dentro). 


A voice within. 


Hacia efta parte imagino 


It appears to me this way 


Que oigo voces ; llegad prello. 


Voices I can hear, quick ! fee ! 


Gil. 


Gil. 


Seiior, en buena hora acuda 


At a lucky time. Sir Traveller, 


A defatar una duda 


Have you come to be th'unraveller 


En que ha rato que elloy puefto. 


Of this knotty point for me. 


Menga. 


Menga. 


Si acafo bufcais, feiior. 


If you're feeking, fir, along 


Por el monte algun cordel. 


This wild road a rope to tie you. 


Yo OS puedo fervir con el. 


I'm the one that can fapply you. 


Gil. 


Gil. 


Eile es mas gordo y mejor. 


Mine is better and more ftrong. 


Menga. 


Menga. 


Yo, por fer muger, efpero 


As a woman, from my pains 


Remedio en las anfias mias. 


I Ihould firft delivered be. 


Gil. 


Gil. 


No repare en cortesias. 


Oh ! a fig for courtefy ! 


Desateme a mi primero. 


Loofe me firft, fir, from my chains. 



262 



LA DEFOCION DE LA CRUZ. 



Salen Curcio, Octavio, Tirso, Bras, 

y foldados. 

Tirfo. 
Hacia aquefta parte fuena 
La voz. 

Gil, 
i Que te quemas ! 
Tirfo, 

Gil, 
I Que es ello ? 

Gil. 

El diabro es futil ; 
Defata, Tirfo, y mi pena 
Te dire defpues. 

Curcio. 

I Que es efto ? 
Gil, 
Venga en buen hora, feHor, 
A calligar un traidor. 
Curcio, 
I Quien delta fuerte os ha puefto ? 

Gil. 
I Quien ? Eufebio, que en efeto 
Dice : , . . . Pero i que fe yo 
Lo que dice ? El nos dejo 
Aqui en femejante aprieto. 

Tirfo. 
No llores pues, que no ha eftado 
Hoy muy poco liberal 
Contigo. 

Bras. 
No lo ha hecho mal, 
Pues a Menga te ha dejado. 

Gil. 
i Ay Tirfo ! no lloro yo, 



Enter Curcio, Octavio, Tirso, Bras, 

and others. 

Tirfo. 
From this place doth found again 
That fame voice. 

Gil. 

You burn.* 
Tirfo. 

How? why? 
What's this, Gil? 

Gil, 
The devil is fly :— 
Loofe me firft, and I'll explain 
All about it. 

Curcio, 

What's this ? fay. 
Gil. 
Sure you're fent, fir, by the Ikies 
A vile traitor to chaftife. 

Curcio. 
Who has tied you in this way ? 

Gil. 
Who ? Eufebio : and the fcamp 
Said .... but hang me ! if I know 
What he faid ; he left us, though. 
Tied up tight here with the cramp. 

Tirfo. 
Well, don't cry ! 'twas well to find him 
A61 fo generoufly, Gil, 
Towards you to-day. 
Bras. 

He meant no ill, 
Menga to have left behind him. 

Gil. 
Ah ! I do not flied a tear. 



* Gil, who it is to be recoUedled is the gradofo or buffoon of the drama, treats the advancing 
party as if they were playing the game of hide-and-feek, and makes ufe of the exclamation gene- 
rally employed to attradt or divert the attention of the feeker. — M. Damas-Hinard. 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 263 


Porque piadofo no fue. 


Tirfo, for his illiberahty. 


Tirfo, 


Tirfo. 


Pues I por que lloras ? 


Why then weep ? 


Gil, 


Gil, 


I Por que ? 


For the fatality 


Porque a Menga me dejo : 


Of his leaving her with me here. 


La de Anton Uevo, y al cabo 


Anton's bride when he took away, 


De feis, que no parecia. 


Six days long Ihe was out of our fight. 


Hallo a fu muger un dia ; 


On the feventh fhe came to light; — 


Hicimos un baile bravo 


Oh ! what a feaft we had that day 


De hallazgo, 7 gafto cien reales. 


On the hundred reals Ihe brought in 




her pocket ! 


Bras. 


Bras, 


i Bartolo no fe cafo 


Yes, and didn't Bartolo wed 


Con Catalina, y pario 


Catalina, and wafn't fhe brought to bed 


A feis mefes no cabales ? 


In fix months of a boy, and didn't he 


Y andaba con gran placer 


rock it. 


Diciendo : \ Si tu le viefes ! 


Feeling the happieft man alive. 


Lo que otra hace en nueve mefes. 


And telling his friends triumphantly, too. 


Hace en cinco mi muger. 


What takes other women nine months 

to do 
Mine is able to do in five ? 




Tirfo. 


Tirfo, 


Ello, no hay honra fegura. 


Honour's nothing in his fight. 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


I Que efto Ilegue a efcuchar yo 


Still am I condemn'd to hear 


Defte tirano ? i quien vio 


Of this villain's vile career ? — 


Tan notable defventura ? 


Oh 1 my wretched, wretched plight ! 


Menga. 


Menga, 


Como deftruirle pienfa ; 


Think this monfler of feduftion 


Que hafta las mifmas mugeres 


How to capture, how to kill. 


Tomaremos, fi tu quieres. 


Even the women, if you will. 


Las armas para fu ofenfa. 


All will arm for his deftruftion. 


Gil. 


Gil, 


Que aqui acude es lo mas cierto ; 


That we're on his track is plain. 


Y toda efta procefion 


For thefe crofTes, far projefted 


De Cruces que miras, fon. 


O'er the horizon, are erefted 


Senor, por hombres que ha muerto. 


O'er the men that he hath flain. 



264 LA DEFOCION 


' DE LJ CRUZ. 


O^az'io. 


Oaavio. 


Es aqui lo mas fecreto 


'Tis the moll fecluded fpot 


De todo el monte. 


Of the mountain. 


Curcio {aparte). 


Curcio {afide). 


y aqui 


And 'twas here. 


Fue ; cielos ! donde yo vi 


Heavens ! I faw v^ith awe and fear 


Aquel milagrofo efeto 


That flupendous wonder wrought 


De inocencia y callidad. 


By the power of two magicians — 


Cuya beldad atrevido 


Innocence and Chaftity — 


Tantas veces he ofendido 


Beauteous guardian powers by me 


Con dudas, fiendo verdad 


Wrong'd fo oft through vile fufpicions 


Un milagro tan paten te. 


Of one fair as fhe was pure. 


OSiavio. 


OBavio. 


Seiior, i que nueva palion 


Ah ! lir, what new form of pain 


Caufa tu imaginacion ? 


Thus diilurbs your mind again ? 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


Rigores, que el alma fiente. 


'Tis a pain no time can cure ; 


Son, Oftavio ; y mis enojos. 


'Tis a grief that will arife ; 


Para publicar mi mengua. 


'Tis a pang whofe hidden caufe. 


Como los niego a la lengua. 


Though to tell the tongue may paufe. 


Me van faliendo a los ojos. 


Mull be fpoken by the eyes. 


Haz, Oflavio, que me deje 


Lead afide, O friend ! the train 


Solo efa gente que figo. 


Of my followers ; in this lonely 


Porque aqui de mi y conmigo 


Spot, and to the high heavens only. 


Hoy a los cielos me queje. 


0/^me, to me, would I plain. 


O£iavio. 


OSiavio. 


Ea, foldados, defpejad. 


Lads, our leader rell allows ye. 


Bras, 


Bras. 


^- Que decis ? 


How allows ye ? 


Tirfo. 


Tirfo. 


I Que pretendeis ? 


What's that, pray ? 


Gil, 


Gil 


Defpiojad/ ^ no lo entendeis ? 


Don't you fee, as plain as day. 


Que nos vamos a efpulgar. 


That he fays to us. Lads, all loufe ye ?* 


\yanfe todos, menos Curcio. 


{Exeunt all but Curcio. 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


I A quien no habra fucedido 


Doth it happen not in forrow. 


* This coarfe pleafantry of miftaking the word 


defpejad (or dejpioj ad I have ventured to imitate. 



THE DEVOTION OF THE CROSS. 



265 



Tal vez, lleno de pefares, 

Defcanfar configo a folas, 

Por no defcubrirfe a nadie? 

Yo a quien tantos penfamientos 

A un tiempo afligen, que hacen 

Con lagrimas y fufpiros 

Competencia al mar y al aire, 

Compaiiero de mi mifmo 

En las mudas foledades. 

Con la penfion de mis bienes 

Quiero divertir mis males. 

Ni las aves, ni las fuentes 

Sean telligos baftantes ; 

Que al fin las fuentes murmuran, 

Y tienen lengua las aves. 

No quiero mas compania. 

Que aqueftos rufticos fauces ; 

Pues quien efcucha, j no aprende. 

Sera fuerza que no hable. 

Teatro efte monte fue 

Del fucefo mas notable. 

Que entre prodigios de zelos 

Cuentan las antigiiedades 

De una inocente verdad. 

Pero I quien podra librarfe 

De fofpechas, en quien fon 

Mentirofas las verdades ? 

Muerte de amor fon los zelos. 

Que no perdonan a nadie, 

Ni por humilde le dejan, 

Ni le refpetan por grave. 

Aqui pues, donde yo digo, 

Rofmira y yo . . . De acordarme. 

No es mucho que el alma tiemble. 

No es mucho que la voz falte ; 

Que no hay flor, que no me afombre. 

No hay hoja, que no me efpante. 

No hay piedra, que no me admire, 

Tronco, que no me acobarde. 



When the heart is full of fadnefs. 

That one feeketh felf-communion 

Rather than confide in any? 

I, afilided at one moment 

Bythe numerous thoughts that w^rack me. 

With my fighing and my weeping 

Rivalling the air and water, 

I, companion of myfelf, 

'Mid thefe wilds that no voice gladdens, 

Seek to while away my forrows. 

Thinking of the joys departed. 

I would have nor birds nor fountains 

Witneffes of this felf-parley, — 

For in fine the fountains murmur. 

And the birds have tongues that warble; 

I would only be companion'd 

By thefe rough and ruftling alders : 

For who hears and underftands not 

Cannot fpeak of aught that palTes. 

This wild mountain was the fcene 

Of a more furprifing marvel 

Than antiquity relateth. 

All through jealoufy's ftrange annals. 

Of an innocent woman's truth. 

Ah ! but who can break the fhackles 

Of fufpicions, which to truths 

Give the very air of falfenefs ? 

Jealoufy is the death of love. 

No love lives while that plague lafteth. 

Nor the lowly is pafs'd over, 

Nor the lofty left unblafted. 

Here then, here, where I am fpeaking, 

I Rofmira led ... . What marvel 

That the thought doth make me fhudder. 

That the memory makes me falter ! 

Since there's not a flower but frights me. 

Not a leaf but makes me ftartle, 

Not a ftone I fee but fliocks me. 

Not a tree-trunk but unmans me. 



266 LA DEVOCION 


■ DE LA CRUZ, 


Penafco, que no me oprima. 


Not a rock but feems to crulh me, 


Monte, que no me amenace ; 


Not a mountain but o'erhangs me ; 


Porque todos fon tefligos 


Since they all have been fpeftators 


De una hazaiia tan infame. 


Of fo infamous an a£l here. 


Saque al fin la efpada, 7 ella. 


I my fword drew, and Ihe Ihowing 


Sin temerme y fin turbarfe, 


Fear nor trouble in her manner. 


Porque en riefgos de honor* nunca 


Since in rifles of love and honour 


" El inocente es cobarde : 


Innocence is ne'er faint-hearted, — 


Efpofo, dijo, detente ; 


" Hold !» Ihe faid, " oh ! hold, my 


No digo que no me mates. 


hulband ! 


Si es tu guflo, I porque yo 


'Tis not for my life I alk thee. 


Como he de poder negarte 


Take it, if thou fo art minded. 


La mifma vida que es tuya ? 


Since I can't refufe to grant thee 


Solo te pido, que antes 


That which is thine own already ; 


Me digas por lo que muero ; 


What I aflc thee for, is rather 


Y dejame que te abrace." 


To fay why I die, then let me 


Yo la dije : " En tus entraiias. 


Die, but die in thy embraces." 


Como la vibora, traes 


I replied, " Within thy body, 


A quien te ha de dar la muerte. 


Like the viper, thou doll carry 


Indicio ha lido baftante 


That which is thine own dellruftion. 


El parto infame que efperas : 


Proved enough by that unhappy 


Mas no le veras, que antes. 


Birth of Ihame that thou awaitell ; 


Dandote muerte, fere 


But that birth Ihall never happen. 


Verdugo tuyo y de un angel." 


For in killing thee my vengeance 


" Si acafo," me dijo entonces. 


Seals thine own fate and an angel's.'* 


« Si acafo, efpofo, llegafte 


" If by any chance, my hufband, — 


A creer flaquezas mias. 


If by any chance," Ihe anfwer'd. 


Julio fera que me mates. 


" Thou my frailty canll believe in. 


Mas a efta Cruz abrazada. 


It is jull that thou Ihouldll llab me ; 


A ella que ellaba delante. 


But I call this crofs to witnefs," 


Profiguio, doy por telligo. 


(Then, as now, the one here planted). 


De que no fupe agraviarte. 


" This that I embrace, that never 


Ni ofenderte ; que ella fola 


Have I thought to wrong or harm thee 


Sera jullo que me ampare." 


In thine honour, and I trull me 


Bien quifiera entonces yo. 


To its faving power to guard me." 


Arrepentido, arrojarme 


I would then have almoll wilh'd. 


A fus pies, porque fe via 


In repentance, to have call me 


Su inocencia en fu femblante. 


At her feet, her innocence 


* Hartzenbufch reads " amor:'' 


Shining in her eyes' pure glances. 



THE DEMOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 267 


El que una traicion intenta 


He who treachery meditateth 


Antes mire lo que hace ; 


Well at firft ihould weigh the matter : 


Porque una vez declarado. 


For if once it is outfpoken. 


Aunque procure enmendarfe. 


Though he'd have it countermanded. 


Por decir que tuvo caufa. 


From his having own'd a caufe. 


Lo ha de llevar adelante. 


To the clofe it muft be afted. 


Yo pues, no porque dudaba 


I then, not becaufe I thought her 


Ser la difculpa baftante. 


Exculpation lefs than ample. 


Sino porque mi delito 


But becaufe fome palliation 


Mas amparado quedafe. 


Wifh'd I for my guilty madnefs. 


El brazo levante airado, 


Raifed my angry arm, infliding. 


Tirando por varias partes 


In a wild and furious manner. 


Mil heridas ; pero folo 


Many a death- wound; but I dealt them 


Las ejecute en el aire. 


Only on the air that parted : — 


Por muerta al pie de la Cruz 


At the foot of the Crofs, for dead. 


Quedo, y queriendo efcaparme. 


She remained, and I, diftrafted, 


A cafa llegue, y hallela 


Flying thence, went home, and found 


Con mas belleza que fale 


her 


El alba, cuando en fus brazos 


Lovelier than in golden gladnefs 


Nos prefenta el fol infante. 


When day dawns, and, in its arms 


Ella en fus brazos tenia 


Bearing the infant fun, advances. 


A Julia, divina imagen 


For within her arms Ihe held 


De hermofura y difcrecion : 


Julia, image and example 


{l Que gloria pudo igualarfe 


Of all heavenly grace and beauty ; 


A la mia ?) que fu parto 


(Oh ! what rapture could be balanced 


Habia fido aquella tarde 


Againft mine then !) the birth having 


Al mifmo pie de la Cruz ; 


On that very evening happen'd 


Y por divinas fenales, 


At the foot of that fame Crofs. 


Con que al mundo defcubria 


And for proofs divinely patent. 


Dios un milagro tan grande. 


By whofe means would God difcover 


La niiia que habia parido. 


To the world fo great a marvel. 


Dichofa con feiias tales. 


On the new-born baby's bofom, 


Tenia en el pecho una Cruz, 


Happy to be thus fo mark'd there. 


Labrada de fuego y fangre. 


Was a Crofs of blood and fire 


Pero J ay ! que tanta ventura 


Work'd in wonderful enamel. 


Templaba el que fe quedafe 


But, alas ! what moderated 


Otra criatura en el monte ; 


So much joy was, that an after 


Que ella, entre penas tan graves. 


Child was left upon the mountain. 


Sintio haber parido dos ; 


Since fhe, in her painful travail. 



268 



LA DEVOCION DE LA CRUZ. 



Y yo entonces .... 

Sale OcTAVio. 

O^avio. 

Por el valle 
Atraviefa un efcuadron 
De bandoleros ; y antes 
Que cierre la noche trifle. 
Sera bien, fefior, que bajes 
A bufcarlos, no obfcurezca ; 
Porque ellos el monte faben, 

Y nofotros no. 

Curcio. 

Pues junta 
La gente vaya adelante ; 
Que no hay gloria para mi, 
Halla llegar a vengarme. \_Fanfe. 



Vista exterior de un Convento. 

Salen Eusebio, Ricardo y Celio con una 
efcala. 

Ricardo. 
Llega con lilencio, y pon 
A efa parte las efcalas. 

Eujebio. 
Icaro fere fin alas. 
Sin fuego fere Faeton : 
Efcalar al fol intento, 
Y fi me quiere ayudar 
La luz, tengo de pafar 
Mas alia del firmamento. 
Amor fer tirano enfena. — 
En fubiendo yo, quitad 
Efa efcala, y efperad, 
Hafta que os haga una fena. 
Quien fubiendo fe defpeiia. 



Felt fhe had given birth to two. 
And I then .... 

Enter Octavio, 

08avio. 

Along the valley 
Winds its devious way a fquadron 
Of banditti ; and, ere darknefs 
In the night's fad gloom enfolds it. 
It were well, fir, that you haflen'd 
Down to feek them, left you lofe them : 
For they know the mountain-pafl'es. 
And we know them not. 

Curcio. 

Combined, 
Let our people all advance then ; 
Since no reft can I enjoy 
Till my heart's revenge is granted. 

\Exeunt. 

Outside a Convent at Night. 

Enter Eusebio, Ricardo, and Celio 

with a fcaling'ladder, 

Ricardo. 
Silently tread ; a little nigher : — 
Here fix the ladder with the flings. 

Eufebio. 
Icarus I'll be without his wings. 
Phaeton without his fire ; 
I intend to fcale the fun. 
If then I would have its light 
Aid me in my daring flight ; 
Mount I muft till heaven is won, — 
Tyrant love, watch over all ! — 
When I enter, from the grating 
Take the ladder, and be waiting 
Hereabouts until I call. — 
Though proud Phaeton may fall, 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 269 


Suba hoy, y baje ofendido, 


Dazzled by the light furprifing. 


En cenizas convertido ; 


In his alhes agoniling. 


Que la pena del bajar, 


Still the pain of falling down 


No fera parte a quitar 


Cannot take away the crown. 


La gloria de haber fubido. 


Or the glory of the rifing. 


Ricardo. 


Ricardo. 


I Que efperas ? 


What delays thee ? 


Celio. 


Celio. 


Pues I que rigor 


Say, what here 


Tu altivo orgullo embaraza ? 


Can impede thy haughty aim ? 


Eujebio. 


Eufebio. 


I No veis como me amenaza 


Saw you not a living flame 


Un vivo fuego ? 


Flafh before my eyes ? 


Ricardo. 


Ricardo. 


Seiior, 


A mere 


Fantafmas fon del temor. 


Phantafy it was of fear. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio, 


{Yo temor? 


I to fear ? 


Celio. 


Celio, 


Sube. 


Then up ! 


Eufebio, 


Eufebio, 


Yallego, 


Although 


Aunque a, tantos rayos ciego. 


Lightnings blind me, I Ihall go : 


Por las llamas he de entrar ; 


Through the very flames Til enter ; 


Que no lo podra eftorbar 


Powerlefs now as a preventer 


De todo el infierno el fuego. 


Were the infernal fire below. 


\Sube y entra. 


\He afcends and enters. 


Celio. 


Celio. 


Ya entro. 


Now he's in. 


Ricardo. 


Ricardo. 


Alguna fantasia 


Some phantafy 


De fu mifmo horror fundada. 


On its in-born horror founded — 


En la idea acreditada. 


Of ideal fears compounded, — 


O alguna ilufion feria. 


Some illuflon it muft be. 


Celio. 


Celio. 


Quita la efcala. 


Take the ladder down. 


Ricardo. 


Ricardo. 


Hafta el dia 


Here we 


Aqui le hemos de efperar. 

1 


Muft remain till morning's prime. 



270 LA DEFOCIOISI 


■ DE LA CRUZ. 


Celio, 


Celio, 


Atrevimiento fue entrar. 


'Twas a daring thing to climb, — 


Aunque yo de mejor gana 


Though the hours I'd rather pafs 


Me fuera con mi villana ; 


With my own dear village lafs, — 


Mas defpues habra lugar. [Vanfe. 


Better luck another time ! [Exeunt, 


Celda de Julia. 


The Corridor outside the Cft.l 




OF Julia. 


Sale EusEBio. 


Enter Eusebio. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


For todo el convento he andado 


All through the convent I have glided 


Sin fer de nadie fentido. 


Unperceived by any mortal. 


Y por cuanto he difcurrido. 


And my path through porch and portal 


De mi deftino guiado. 


By my deftiny feems guided. 


A mil celdas he llegado 


To a thoufand cells, divided 


De religiofas, que abiertas 


By their narrow open doors. 


Tienen las eftrechas puertas. 


Have I come on the corridors. 


Y en ninguna a Julia vi. 


And have Julia feen in none. 


I Donde me llevais all, 


Whither would ye lead me on. 


Efperanzas liempre inciertas ? 


Hopes that feek but phantom fliores ? 


J Que horror ! ; que filencio mudo ! 


Oh ! what filent horror's here ! 


J Que obfcuridad tan funefta ! 


Oh ! what darknefs here doth dwell ! 


Luz hay aqui ; celda es efta. 


There's a light within this cell ; 


Y en elk Julia, i Que dudo ? 


Julia's in it ! Why this fear ? 


\Corre una cortina, y ve a Julia 


[Draws a curtainy and Jvli a is 


durmiendo. 


feen afleep. 


I Tan poco el valor ayudo. 


Does my courage difappear ? 


Que ahora en hablarla tardo ? 


Is't fo flight, that I delay 


Que es lo que efpero ? que aguardo ? 


Now to advance ? Why paufe ? Why 


Mas con impulfo dudofo. 


Hay? 


Si me animo temerofo. 


By an impulfe to and fro. 


Animofo me acobardo. 


Trembling, I a boldnefs Ihow, 


Mas belleza la humildad 


Bold, a coward's heart betray. 


Defte trage la afegura ; 


Lovelier in the humblenefs 


Que en la muger la hermofura 


Of this drefs flie feems to me. 


Es la mifma honellidad. 


For with women modefty 


Su peregrina beldad. 


Is in itfelf a comelinefs. 


De mi torpe amor objeto. 


Her furpaffing lovelinefs. 



THE DEFOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 271 


Hace en mi mayor efeto ; 


Which I feek, unawed, uncheck'd. 


Que a un tiempo a mi amor incito 


Moves me vi^ith a twin effedl ; 


Con la hermofura apetito. 


At one time it doth incite. 


Con la honeftidad refpeto. 


By its beauty, appetite. 


! Julia! i ah Julia! 


By its modelly, refpedl. 




Julia ! Julia ! 


Julia, 


Julia {^awaking). 


Quien me nombra ? 


Who doth call me ? — 


Mas i cielos ! i que es lo que veo ? 


But, heavens ! what's this I fee ? 


I Eres fombra del defeo. 


Art thou defire's dread phantafy ? 


O del penfamiento fombra ? 


Art thou a dream that doth enthral me ? 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


I Tanto el mirarme te afombra ? 


Does my prefence fo appal thee ? 


Julia. 


Julia. 


I Pues quien habra que no intente 


Who would not in dread difmay 


Huir de ti ? 


Fly from thee ? 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Julia, detente. 


Ah! Julia, Hay! 


Julia. 


Julia. 


I Que quieres, forma fingida. 


What's thy wifh, fiftitious form. 


De la idea repetida. 


Speftre that no life doth warm. 


Sola a la villa aparente ? 


Sight-born ftiape, what wouldft thou ? 


I Eres, para pena mia. 


fay. 


Voz de la imaginacion ? 


Art thou, for my punifhment. 


I Retrato de la ilulion ? 


The expreffion of my thought ? 


I Cuerpo de la fantasia ? 


Image by illufion wrought ? 


I Fantafma en la noche fria ? 


Phantafy's embodiment? 




Phantom on the cold night fent ? 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Julia, efcucha, Eufebio foy. 


Thine Eufebio am I, fweet. 


Que vivo a tus pies eftoy ; 


Living, lying at thy feet. 


Que li el penfamiento fuera. 


For if I thy thought could be, 


Siempre contigo elluviera. 


I for ever were with thee. 


Julia. 


Julia. 


Defengafiandome voy 


The delufion, the deceit. 


Con oirte, y confidero. 


Liftening thee, I'm labouring through, 


Que mi recato ofendido 


And I think that my pride-pain'd 


Mas te quiliera fingido, 


Honour would prefer the feign'd. 


Eufebio, que verdadero. 


Falfe Eufebio, than the true. 



272 LJ DEFOCION 


■ DE LA CRUZ. 


Donde yo Uorando muero, 


Here, where weeping I renew 


Donde yo vivo penando. 


Every day a living death. 


i Que quieres ? \ eftoy temblando ! 


What's your wifti ? I gafp for breath ! 


I Que bufcas ? j eftoy muriendo ! 


What's your objedt ! Ah ! I die ! 


i Que emprendes ? j eftoy temiendo ! 


What's your aim ? an afpen I. ! 


I Que intentas ? j eftoy dudando ! 


What's your end ? doubt anfwereth. 


iComo has llegado hafta aqui? 


Here why have you dared to be ? 


Eu/e^io. 


Eufebio. 


Todo es extremos amor, 


'Tis but love's infenfate daring, 


Y mi pena y tu rigor 


Thy difdain and my defpairing. 


Hoy han de triunfar de mi. 


That have triumph'd over me. 


Hafta verte aqui, fufri 


Till I faw thee here, thy free 


Con efperanza fegura ; 


State my love with fond hopes fed ; 


Pero viendo tu hermofura 


But, beholding thee as dead. 


Perdida, he atropellado 


Loft to me, the cloifter's law. 


El refpeto del fagrado. 


This afylum's facred awe. 


Y la ley de la claufura. 


Have I crufti'd beneath my tread. 


De lo cierto, 6 de lo injufto 


Be the aft unjuft, or juft. 


Los dos la culpa tenemos, 


We muft bear the blame united. 


Y en mi vienen dos extremos. 


By two powers am I incited — 


Que fon la fuerza y el gufto. 


Violence and pleafure's luft. 


No puede dark difgufto 


In the fight of Heaven difguft 


Al cielo mi pretenfion ; 


My pretenfions cannot roufe. 


Antes defta ejecucion. 


Since at heart thou wert my fpoufe 


Cafada eras en fecreto, 


Ere thou cam'ft this ftep to take. 


Y no cabe en un fugeto 


And one tongue fhould never make 


Matrimonio y religion. 


Marriage and monaftic vows. 


Julia. 


Julia, 


No niego el lazo amorofo. 


I deny not the fweet bond 


Que hizo con felicidades 


That in happieft unifon 


Unir a dos voluntades. 


Join'd two feparate wills in one ; 


Que fue fu efefto forzofo, 


Nay, that, 'neath love's magic wand. 


Que te llame amado efpofo ; 


I beftow'd on thee the fond. 


Y que todo efo fue afi. 


Sweet name of huftjand, — I confefs 


Confiefo ; pero ya aqui. 


All this is true ; but ne'erthelefs. 


Con voto de religiofa. 


By a holier law invited. 


A Crifto de fer fu efpofa 


Have I hand and promife plighted 


Mano y palabra le di. 


Here to wear Chrift's bridal drefs ; 


Ya foy fuya, { que me quieres ? 


I am His : what wouldft thou ? Go ! 



THE DEFOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 273 


Vete, porque el mundo afombres. 


Where with fear the world thou filleft. 


Donde mates a los hombres. 


Where unhappy men thou killeft. 


Donde fuerces las mugeres. 


Where thou work'ft weak women's woe. 


Vete, Eufebio ; ya no efperes 


Go ! nor hope, Eufebio, 


Fruto de tu loco amor ; 


Thy infenfate love's fruition, — 


Para que te caufe horror. 


Think with horror and contrition 


Que eftoy en fagrado, pienfa. 


Of this facred place, and fly me. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Cuanto es mayor tu defenfa, 


Ah ! the more thou doll deny me. 


Es mi apetito mayor. 


Greater grows my love's ambition. 


Ya las paredes falte 


I have fcaled the walls, my way 


Del convento, ya te vi; 


Through the convent led to thee ; 


No es amor quien vive en mi. 


Love no more impelleth me — 


Caufa mas oculta fue. 


I fome fubtler law obey. 


Cumple mi gufto, 6 dire. 


Grant my wifh, or I Ihall fay, 


Que tu mifma me has llamado. 


That I came by thee here bidden ; 


Que me has tenido encerrado 


That thou here haft kept me hidden 


En tu celda muchos dias : 


In thy cell for many days ; 


Y pues las defdichas mias 


And, fince my misfortunes craze 


Me tienen defefperado. 


This poor brain, defpairing, chidden, 


Dare voces : Sepan .... 


I Ihall cry out : Know .... 


Julia. 


Julia. 


Tente, 


Oh, ftay ! 


Eufebio, mira . . . . ( j ay de mi !) 


Hold, Eufebio ! . . . (woe is me !) 


Pafos Hento por aqui, 


For the nuns' fteps, audibly, 


Al coro atraviefa gente. 


To the choir approach this way. 


i Cielos, no fe lo que intente ! 


Heavens ! I know not what to fay : — 


Cierra efa celda, y en ella 


Clofe the cell — the entrance bar — 


Eftaras, pues atropella 


Here remain : lince oft a far 


Un temor a otro temor. 


Worfe fear doth a lefs remove. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


\ Que poderofo es mi amor ! 


Oh ! how powerful is my love ! 


Julia. 


Julia. 


\ Que rigurofa es mi eftrella ! {yanfe. 


Oh ! how rigorous is my ftar ! 




[Scene clofes. 



274 



LA DEFOCION OF THE CROSS. 



Vista exterior del Convento. 

Sakn RicARDO y Celio. 

Ricardo. 
Ya fon las tres, mucho tarda. 

Celio. 
El que goza fu ventura, 
Ricardo, en la noche obfcura, 
Nunca el claro fol aguarda. 
Yo apuefto que le parece. 
Que nunca el fol madrugo 
Tan to, y que hoy aprefuro 
Su curfo. 

Ricardo. 

Siempre amanece 
Mas temprano a quien defea, 
Pero al que goza mas tarde. 

Celio. 
No creas, que al fol aguarde. 
Que en el oriente fe vea. 

Ricardo. 
Dos horas fon ya. 

Celio. 

No creo. 
Que Eufebio lo diga. 
Ricardo. 

Es jufto ; 
Porque al fin fon de fu gullo 
Las horas de tu defeo. 

Celio. 
I No fabes lo que he llegado 
Hoy, Ricardo, a fofpechar ? 
Que Julia le envio a Ilamar. 

Ricardo. 
Pues li no fuera IJamado, 
I Quien a efcalar fe atreviera 
Un convento ? 



Outside the Convent. 

Enter Ricardo and Celio. 

Ricardo, 
'Tis three o'clock ; he tarries late. 

Celio. 
He for whom the dark night flies 
With love's planet in its Ikies, 
Ne'er the fun's clear beams need wait. 
I'll be bound, to him it feems 
That the fun gets up to-day 
Far too foon, his golden way 
Thus foreilalling. 

Ricardo. 

Yes, it beams 
Ever early for deflre. 
Ever late when love is bleft. 

Celio. 
Do not think, though, he will reft 
In there till the eaft's on fire. 

Ricardo, 
Two hours gone. 

Celio. 

I would admire. 
If he thinks fo. 

Ricardo. 

You are right. 
For the hours of his delight 
Are the hours of your defire. 

Celio. 
Do you know, that the fufpicion 
I have form'd, Ricardo, is 
'Tis the lady's wifli, not his ? 

Ricardo. 
If he had not got permiflion. 
Who is there that thus would dare 
Convent walls to fcale ? 



THE DEFOTION OF THE CROSS. 



275 



Ce/io. 
I No has fentido, 
Ricardo, a efta parte ruido ? 

Ricardo, 
Si. 

Cello. 
Pues llega la efcalera. 

Salen por lo alto Julia ^ Eusebio. 

Eufebio, 
Dejame, muger. 

, Julia. 

I Pues cuando 
Vencida de tus defeos, 
Movida de tus fufpiros, 
Obligada de tus ruegos, 
De tu llanto agradecida, 
Dos veces a Dios ofendo, 
Como a Dios, y como a efpofo, 
Mis brazos dejas, haciendo 
Sin efperanzas defdenes, 

Y fin pofefion defprecios ? 
I Donde vas ? 

Eufebio. 

Muger, que intentas ? 
Dejame, que voy huyendo 
De tus brazos, porque he vifto 
No fe que deidad en ellos. 
Llamas arrojan tus ojos, 
Tus fufpiros fon de fuego, 
Un volcan cad a razon, 
Un rayo cada cabello, 
Cada palabra es mi muerte, 
Cada regalo un infierno : 
Tantos temores me caufa 
La Cruz, que he vifto en tu pecho ; 
Seiial prodigiofa ha lido, 

Y no permitan los cielos. 



Celio. 

Doft hear 
Sounds, Ricardo, drawing near ? 

Ricardo, 
Yes. 

Celio. 
Then place the ladder there, 

Julia and Eusebio appear at the 
window. 

Eufebio. 
Leave me, woman. 

Julia. 

How ? when I, 
By thy fond delirings conquer'd. 
Moved to pity by thy fighings. 
By thy warm entreaties foften'd. 
Doubly have difpleafed the Godhead, 
As my God and my efpoufed ; 
Flying from thefe arms that lock'd thee, 
Doft thou without hope difdain me. 
And without poffeffion fcorn me ? 
Whither goeft thou ? 

Eufebio. 

Woman, leave me. 
For I fly thofe arms that fold me. 
Having feen but now within them 
Some, I know not what, God's token ; 
In each glance a flame is darted. 
In each figh a fire outbloweth, 
A volcano every accent. 
Lightning every fair trefs golden. 
In each word my death is mutter'd. 
At each fond carefs hell opens ; 
So much fear that Crofs hath caufed me 
Which thy breaft reveal'd and fliowM 

me: 
Sign prodigious ! facred fymbol ! 



276 



LA DEFOCION DE LA CRUZ. 



Que, aunque tanto los ofenda, 
Pierda a la Cruz el refpeto. 
Pues fi la hago teftigo 
De las culpas que cometo, 
I Con que vergiienza defpues 
Llamarla en mi ayuda puedo ? 
Quedate en tu religion, 
Julia, yo no te defprecio. 
Que mas ahora te adoro. 

Julia. 
Efcucha, detente, Eufebio. 

Eufebio. 
Ella es la efcala. 

Julia. 

Detente, 

llevame alia. 

Eujebio. 

No puedo, [Baja. 
Pues que, lin gozar la gloria 
Que tanto efpere, te dejo. 
Valgame el cielo ! cai. [Cae. 

Ricardo. 
Que ha lido ? 

Eufebio. 

^- No veis el viento 
Poblado de ardientes rayos ? 

1 No mirais fangriento el cielo. 
Que todo fobre mi viene ? 

I Donde eilar feguro puedo. 
Si airado el cielo fe mueftra ? 
Divina Cruz, yo os prometo, 
Y OS hago folemne voto 
Con cuantas claufulas puedo, 
De en cualquier parte que os vea. 
Las rodillas por el fuelo, 
Rezar un Ave Maria. 



And the heavens allow me nowhere. 
Though I fo offend, to fail in 
Reverence for a fign fo holy. 
Since if I a witnefs make it 
Of the crimes I dare each moment. 
With what Ihame would I hereafter. 
In my hour of need, invoke it ? 
Stay, then, Julia, in religion ; 
Ah ! indeed I do not fcorn thee, 
I adore thee more than ever. 

Julia. 
Oh ! Eufebio, hear me 1 hold thee ! 

Eufebio. 
Here's the ladder. 

Julia. 

Oh ! remain. 
Or elfe take me with you. 
Eufebio, 

Hopelefs [He defends. 
Is it ; no ; I leave thee here 
With my fo long-figh*d-for glory 
Unenjoy'd. But, heavens ! I fall. 

[Hefalls. 
Ricardo. 
What has happen'd ? 

Eufebio. 

See you nowhere 
Red bolts peopling all the night wind ? 
Do you not behold the gory 
Heavens that open to o'erwhelm me ? 
Where can I be fafe, if o'er me 
Heaven difplays its awful anger ? 
Thee, O Crofs divine, I promife. 
And a folemn vow I make thee. 
With all ftridnefs of devotement, 
Wherefoe'er I fee thee Handing, 
Kneeling on the ground before thee. 
To recite then a Hail Mary ! 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS, 277 


\Levantafe, y vanje los tres, de- 


[He arifeSi and the three go out, leav- 


jando la efcala puejla. 


ing the ladder in its place. 


Julia. 


Julia {at the window). 


Turbada y confufa quedo. 


In confufion I am loft here. 


I Aquetas fueron, ingrato, 


Was this then, O thou ungrateful ! 


Las iirmezas ? i Eftos fueron 


Thy iix'd purpofe ? This the whole. 


Los extremos de tu amor ? 


then. 


I O fon de mi amor extremos ? 


Of thy love's excefs ? Or is it 


Hafla vencerme a tu gufto, 


Mine own love's excefs abforbs me ? 


Con amenazas, con ruegos. 


Till you conquer'd me to yield you 


Aqui amante, alii tirano. 


All your wifh, by threats, by foftnefs. 


Porlialle; pero luego 


Now a lover, now a tyrant. 


Que de tu gufto 7 mi pena 


You perfifted ; but, when wholly 


Pudifte llamarte dueiio, 


Of your joy and of my forrow 


Antes de veneer huifte. 


You could call yourfelf the owner. 


I Quien, fmo tu, vencio huyendo ? 


You before the viftory fled me ; 


j Muerta foy, cielos piadofos ! 


Who but you e'er fled that conquer'd ? 


I Por que introdujo venenos 


Ah ! I die ! ye pitying heavens ! 


Naturaleza, jfi habia. 


Why has Nature's hand conceded 


Para dar muerte, defprecios ? 


Poifons, when contempt flie nurtures. 


Ellos me quitan la vida; 


Which to kill is far more potent ? 


Pues que con nuevo tormento 


It is that that takes my life : 


Lo que me defprecia bufco. 


Since, to add unto my torment. 


I Quien vio tan dudofo efedo 


That which fhuns me I muft feek. 


De amor ? Cuando me rogaba 


Such effefts of love, what mortal 


Con mil lagrimas Eufebio, 


Ever faw ? For when Eufebio 


Le dejaba ; pero ahora. 


Afk'd me, in all forms of fondnefs. 


Porque el me deja, le ruego. 


Even with tears, I fcorn'd him ; now 


Tales fomos las mugeres. 


Him I aik, becaufe he fcorns me. 


Que contra nueftros defeos. 


Such the nature of us women. 


Aun no queremos dar gufto 


That againft what moft we covet, 


Con lo mifmo que queremos. 


We even would not wilh to pleafe 


Ninguno nos quiera bien. 


With what would delight our ownfelves. 


Si pretende alcanzar premio ; 


No one loves us well who feems 


Que queridas defpreciamos. 


To over-value what he hopeth : 


Y aborrecidas queremos. 


For when we are loved, we fcorn. 


No fiento que no me quiera, 


When we're fcorn'd, our loveis ftrongeft. 


Solo que me deje iiento. 


Me, his want of love moves not. 


Por aqui cayo, tras el 


'Tis his leaving me that moves me. 



278 LA DEFOCION DE LA CRUZ, 


Me arrojare. i Mas que es ello ? 


Here he fell, then after him 


I Efta no es efcala ? Si. 


Shall I throw me. But what holds 


i Que terrible penfamiento ! 


here? 


Detente, imaginacion. 


Is not this the ladder ? Yes, 


No me defpefies ; que creo, 


What a dreadful thought comes o'er me ! 


Que li llego a confentir. 


Stay, imagination, ftay ; 


A hacer el deJito llego. 


Whelm me not, for faith has told me 


{ No falto Eufebio por mi 


That, when I confent in thought. 


Las paredes del convento ? 


I commit the crime that moment. 


I No me holgue de verle yo 


Was it not for me Eufebio 


En tantos peligros puefto 


Scaled the fteep walls of my convent ? 


Por mi caufa ? i pues que dudo ? 


Did I not feel pleafed to fee him 


I Que me acobardo ? { que temo ? 


Running fo much riik to fhow me 


Lo mifmo hare yo en falir. 


His regard ? Then what doth fright me ? 


Que el en entrar ; fi es lo mefmo. 


What doth cow me? Why thus ponder ? 


Tambien fe holgara de verme 


I will do the fame in leaving. 


Por fu caufa en tales riefgos. 


As in entering, he; if fo then. 


Ya por haber confentido. 


He too will be pleafed to fee me, 


La mifma culpa merezco ; 


For his fake, like rifks encounter. 


I Pues ii es tan grande el pecado, 


By confenting, I already 


Por que el gufto ha de fer menos ? 


With an equal guilt am loaded ; 


I Si confenti, y me dejo 


If the fin has been committed, 


Dios de fu mano, no puedo 


Why not with the joy confole me ? 


De una culpa, que es tan grande 


If I've given confent, and God 


Tener perdon ? i pues que efpero ? 


Flings me from his hand, 'tis hopelefs. 


\^Baja por la efcala. 


For a crime fo great, to exped 


Al mundo, al honor, a Dios 


Pardon ; then why wait ? What holds 


Hallo perdido el refpeto, 


me? [She defcends the ladder. 


Cuando a ceguedad tan grande 


For the world, for God, for honour. 


Vendados los ojos vuelvo. 


All refpea I find I've loft here. 


Demonio Toy que he caido 


When I turn my hooded eyes 


Defpenado defte cielo. 


Round upon this darkfome profpedl ; 


Pues fin tener efperanza 


I'm a demon that has fallen 


De Tubir, no me arrepiento. 


From this heaven ferene and fpotlefs. 


Ya eftoy fuera de fagrado. 


Since, all hope being gone, to rife there 


Y de la noche el filencio 


No repentant inftin6l prompts me. 


Con fu obfcuridad me tiene 


I am out of fandluary. 


Cubierta de horror y miedo. 


And the filent night involves me. 


Tan deflumbrada camino. 


With its darknefs, in a net-work 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 279 


Que en las tinieblas tropiezo, 


Of intenfeft fear and horror. 


Y aun no caigo en mi pecado. 


So bereft of light I wander, 


iDondevoy? ^-quehago? ^-queintento? 


That, at every ftep I totter. 


Con la muda confufion 


Stray from all things but my fin. 


De tantos horrores temo. 


Whither go I ? With what objeft ? 


Que fe me altera la fangre. 


I am fearful, in the lilent 


Que fe me eriza el cabello. 


Throng of horrors that enfold me. 


Turbada la fantasia, 


That my hair will Hand on end foon. 


En el aire forma cuerpos. 


That my heart's blood will be frozen. 


Y fentencias contra mi 


On the air perturbed fancy 


Pronuncia la voz del eco. 


Phantoms and ftrange fpeftres formeth ; 


El delito, que antes era 


And, in fentencing me, founds 


Quien me animaba foberbio. 


Echo's voice auftere and folemn : 


Es quien me acobarda ahora. 


The offence, which was erewhile 


Apenas las plantas puedo 


That which fo my pride embolden'd. 


Mover, que el mifmo temor 


Makes a coward of me now. 


Grillos a mis pies ha puefto. 


I can fcarcely move my footfleps. 


Sobre mis hombros parece 


Scarce can drag my feet, for fear 


Que carga un prolijo pefo. 


Hangs its heavy fetters on them. 


Que me oprime, y toda yo 


An opprefTive weight appears 


Eftoy cubierta de hielo. 


To be placed upon my fhoulders. 


No quiero pafar de aqui. 


Which doth weigh me down ; and I 


Quiero volverme al convento. 


All with ice am cover'd over. 


Donde de aquefte pecado 


No \ I will not further go. 


Alcance perdon ; pues creo 


I will back unto my convent. 


De la clemencia divina. 


Where for this fin I may afk 


Que no hay luces en el cielo. 


Pardon, fince fuch faith I fofler 


Que no hay en el mar arenas. 


In the clemency divine, 


No hay atomos en el viento. 


That the flars that light heaven yonder. 


Que, fumados todos juntos. 


That the fands upon the fhore, 


No fean numero pequeiio 


That the atoms of the mote-beams. 


De los pecados que fabe 


All together join'd, would be. 


Dios perdonar. Pafos fiento, 


I believe, but a faint token 


A ella parte me re tiro 


Of the number of the fins 


En tanto que pafan ; luego 


God can pardon. — Steps approach here ! 


Subire, fin que me vean. 


I fhall to this fide retire 


[Retirafe, 


Until they have pafs'd and gone hence; 




Then I fhall afcend unfeen. 




[Retires, 



28o LA DEFOCION DE LA CRUZ. 


Salen Ricardo y Celio. 


Enter Ricardo and Celio. 


Ricardo. 


Ricardo. 


Con el efpanto de Eufebio 


In Eufebio's fright, forgotten 


Aqui fe quedo la efcala. 


Here the ladder has remain'd ; 


Y ahora por ella vuelvo. 


And to take it, I now come here, 


No aclare el dia, y la vean 


Left at dawn of day they fee it 


A efta pared. 


On this wall. 


[^itan la efcala y vanfe, y Julia 


\Exeunty taking the ladder. Julia 


llega donde ejiaba la efcala. 


returns to the place where it 




Jiood. 


Julia. 


Julia. 


Ya fe fueron ; 


They've gone : now foftly. 


Ahora podre fubir. 


Unperceived I may afcend. 


Sin que me fientan. Que es ello ? 


How is this, though ? Is it not here. 


I No es aquefta la pared 


In this part of the wall, the ladder 


De la efcala ? Pero creo. 


Stood this moment? In this other 


Que hacia eilotra parte efta. 


Place, I think, then it muft be : — 


Ni aqui tampoco eita. Cielos ! 


No, nor here 'tis. Heavens above me ! 


I Como he de fubir fin ella ? 


How can I afcend without it? 


Mas ya mi defdicha entiendo ; 


Ah ! I now know my misfortune ; 


Defta fuerte me negais 


In this way you would all entrance 


La entrada vueftra, pues creo. 


Bar againft me, fince it fhows me 


Que, cuando quiero fubir 


That when I would wifh, repentant. 


Arrepentida, no puedo. 


To afcend, the attempt were hopclefs. 


Pues li ya me habeis negado 


Since then you have thus denied me 


Vueftra clemencia, mis hechos 


Your foft clemency, the bold deeds 


De muger defefperada 


Of a woman's defperation. 


Daran afombros al cielo. 


Shall the heavens fcare that behold 


Daran efpantos al mundo. 


them. 


Admiracion a los tiempos. 


Make the world that fees them tremble. 


Horror al mifmo pecado. 


Fill futurity with wonder. 


Y terror al mifmo iniierno. 


Strike even fin itfelf with horror. 




And fhock hell even to the loweft. 



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JORNADA III. 


ACT III. 


Monte. 


A WILD FOREST IN THE MOUNTAIN. 


Sale Gil r^;^ much as Cruces,y una 


Enter Gil, having his drefs covered 


muy grande al pecho. 


with numerous CroJJes, and with a 




large one on his breaft. 


Gil 


Gil, 


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Y^^S-^^f^^ T^Vi r\jir^xjt t.'L^r^ „,;iJ„ r„„ 




^^^«:/r^ wix iciid a ciLc inuiite voy. 




1^^.,^ j:ajxv-/Lj vjix Liicic wiius lui 


S 


M)^, Que Menga me lo ha man- 


^y wood I llray. 


M 


^^^ dado. 


n>-y^r\ 


}^^ Driven abroad by Menga's 


® 


i§^A Y para ir feguro, he hallado 


m^^SA dunning ; 


Una brava invencion hoy. 


So, to go fecure, a cunning 


De la Cruz, dicen, que es 


Stratagem I've plann'd to-day. 


Devoto Eufebio ; y afi 


This Eufebio is, I hear. 


He falido armado aqui 


Still to the Crofs devout, and fo. 


De la cabeza a los pies. 


Thus all arm'd from top to toe. 


Dicho 7 hecho ; j el es par diez ! 


Forth I venture without fear : — 


No encuentro, lleno de miedo. 


Well and good. He's there, by Jove ! 


Donde eftar feguro puedo ; 


Looking glum and this way llriding. 


Sin alma quedo. Efta vez 


And there's not a fpot to hide in 1 


No me ha vifto, yo quifiera . 


Oh ! I cannot breathe or move ! 


Efconderme hacia efte lado. 


But he fees me not, this thickly 


Mientras pafa ; yo he tornado 


Twilled thorn-bufh here may fcreen 


Por guarda una cambronera 


me. 


Para efconderme. j No es nada ! 


Oh ! for fomething foft between me 


Tanta pua es la mas chica : 


And thefe fharp points bare and prickly! 


i Pleguete Crifto ! mas pica. 


Backwards, frontwards, under, over. 


Que perder una trocada. 


Where I Hand the thorns are pricking. 


Mas que fentir un defprecio 


Where I fit the thorns are flicking ; 


De una dama Fierabras, 


Ah ! 'tis plain I'm not in clover. 



282 LA DEFOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Que a todos admite, y mas 


Though the grafs is thick about me. 


Que tener zelos de un necio. 


Better bear with confcience gnawing, 




Better bear a fool's hee-hawing. 




Or a fcolding woman flout me. 




[Conceals hifnfelf. 


Sale EusEBio. 


Enter Eusebio. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


No fe adonde podre ir ; 


Still my days are dark and dreary. 


Larga vida un trifte tiene. 


Still along life's road I go. 


Que nunca la muerte viene 


Carelefs whither, death is flow 


A quien le canfa el vivir. 


Only to the life-aweary. 


Julia, yo me vi en tus brazos ; 


Julia, O, my hoped-for wife ! 


Cuando tan dichofo era. 


When within thy arms I found me, 


Que de tus brazos pudiera 


Then might love have twined around 


Hacer amor nuevos lazos. 


me 


Sin gozar al fin deje 


Garlands new to deck my life ; 


La gloria que no tenia ; 


But the glory I repell'd. 


Mas no fue la caufa mia. 


Fled the untalled joy I fought. 


Caufa mas fecreta fue ; 


Not through mine own ftrength me- 


Pues teniendo mi albedrio. 


thought. 


Superior efedlo ha hecho. 


No, fome fecret force compell'd. 


Que yo refpete en tu pecho 


Since my will I could refign 


La Cruz que tengo en el mio. 


To that mightier power protecting. 


Y pues con elk los dos. 


On thy beauteous breaft refpefting 


i Ay Julia ! habemos nacido. 


That fame Crofs that's ftamp'd on mine. 


Secreto mifterio ha fido. 


Then, flnce Heaven was pleafed to fend 


Que lo entiende folo Dios. 


Thee and me thus fign'd to earth. 




Some ftrange myftery marks our birth 




God alone doth comprehend. 


Gil {aparte). 


Gil {afide). 


Mucho pica, ya no puedo 


Ah ! I'm prick'd in every joint ; 


Mas fufrillo. 


More I can't endure ! 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Entre ellos ramos 


Quite near 


Hay gente. ^- Quien va ? 


Sounds a voice :— Who's there ? 


Gil. 


Gil. 


Aqui echamos 


I'm here. 


A perder todo el enredo. 


Quite made up on every point. 



THE DEVOTION OF THE CROSS, 



283 



Eufebio {aparte). 
Un hombre a un arbol atado, 

Y una Cruz al cuello tiene ; 
Cumplir mi voto conviene 
En el fuelo arrodillado. 

Gil. 
I A quien, Eufebio, enderezas 
La oracion, u de que tratas ? 
Si me adoras, i que me atas ? 
Si me atas, i que me rezas ? 

Eufebio. 
I Quien es ? 

Gil. 
I A Gil no conoces ? 
Defde que con el recado 
Aqui me dejafte atado. 
No han aprovechado voces 
Para que alguien (j que rigor !) 
Me llegafe a defatar. 
Eufebio. 
Pues no es aquefte el lugar 
Donde te deje. 

Gil. 
Seiior, 
Es verdad ; mas yo que vi 
Que nadie llegaba, he andado, 
De arbol en arbol atado, 
Hafta haber Degado aqui. 
Aquefta la caufa fue 
De fucefo tan extraiio. 

Eufebio {aparte). 
Efte es fimple, y de mi daiio 
Cualquier fucefo fabre. — 
Gil, yo te tengo aficion, 
Defde que otra vez hablamos, 

Y aqui quiero que feamos 
Amigos. 



Eufebio {afide). 
Ah ! a man to a tree is bound. 
On his breall's a Crofs, I now 
Mull fulfil my folemn vow. 
Humbly kneeling on the ground. 

\Kneels. 
Gil. 
Who, fir, do you kneel before ? 
Do you mean to deify me ? 
If you adore me, why do you tie me ? 
If you tie me, why adore? 

Eufebio. 
Say, vv^ho are you ? 

Gil. 

Not know Gil ? 
Since the time you left me tied here 
With the meffage, I have cried here 
Without ftint, out loud and fhrill. 
That fome kind hand from this cord 
Would releafe me. (What a cafe !) 

Eufebio. 
Bat then this is not the place 
That I left you in. 

Gil. 

My lord. 
That is true ; but when 'twas clear 
None would come, it feem'd to me 
Beft, thus tied, from tree to tree 
On to glide, till I came here. 
That's the fimple explanation 
Of fo ftrange a circumftance. 

Eufebio {afide). 
Through this limpleton perchance 
I may get fome information 
Of my lofs. — Gil, I was quite 
Taken with your worth when we 
Lail time met, fo let us be 
Friends henceforth. 



284 



LA DEFOCION DE LA CRUZ, 



Gil. 
Tiene razon ; 
Y quiliera, pues nos vemos 
Tan amigos, no ir alia, 
Sino andarme por aca, 
Pues aqui todos feremos 
Buiioleros, que diz que es 
Holgada vida, y no andar 
Todo el alio a trabajar. 

Eufebio. 
Quedate conmigo pues. 

Salen Ricardo y Bandoleros, y traen 
a Julia vejiida de hombrey cubierto 
el roftro. \* Salen Ricardo, y 
Julia, de hombre ; un Pintor, un 

POETA, J) tin AsTROLOGO.f] 

Ricardo. 
En lo bajo del camino. 
Que efta montaiia atraviefa, 
Ahora hicimos una prefa. 
Que fegun es, imagino. 
Que te de gufto. 

Eufebio. 

Efta bien, 
Luego della trataremos. 



Gil 

You fay quite right ; — 
And I'd wifh, fince friend fhip's tether 
Binds us fo, to go not near 
My old cabin, but ftay here 
Bundoleering all together. 
'Tis a pleafant life, they fay, 
Not a ftroke of work or bother 
From one year's end to the other. 

Eufebio. 
Then with me you here may ftay. 

Enter Ricardo and the other brigands, 
leading in Julia, dreffed in man^s 
clothes, and having her face covered. 
[*^;?/(fr Ricardo, and]\5\AK asaman ; 
a Poet, a Painter, and an Astro- 
loger. f] 

Ricardo. 
On the road that 'neath heaven's cope 
O'er this rugged mountain rifes. 
We to-day have made fome prizes 
Of fuch value that I hope 
They may pleafe you. 

Eufebio. 

Right, we'll fee 
Soon to that, but now behold 



* Commencement of the fcene in the edition of Huefca. 

•\ As mentioned in the introdudlion to this drama, La De'vocion de la Cruz was firft publlflied 
in the Parte Veinte y Ocho de Comediasde Varios Autore% (Huefca 1634), under the title oi La Cru% en 
la Sepultura, and as the work of Lope de Vega. Senior Hartzenbufch mentions that this, the 
earlieft impreflion, exhibits many variations from the received text, which are of greater or lefTer 
importance. In this place an entirely new fcene is introduced, which is not to be found in the 
edition of Vera Taffis or in the later editions. This fcene he prints in the notes to his Calderon. 
It was probably omitted from the adled play, as needleflly breaking the continuity of the plot. 
Though nightly imperfeft, it is fufficiently curious to be prefervcd, and I have therefore introduced 
it [between brackets] into the text both of the original and tranflation. Seiaor Hartzenbufch alfo 
prints the portion of this fcene (in the edition of Huefca), which is nearly the fame as that in the 
later editions. A few of the verbal differences that exift between them, I have drawn attention to 
below. — See Hartzenbufch's "Calderon," Notas y Ilufiraciones, t. iv. p. 701. 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 285 


Sabe ahora, que tenemos 


A new comrade, juft enroird 


Un nuevo fold ado. 


In our gallant troop. 


Ricardo. 


Ricardo, 


I Quien ? 


Who's he? 


Gil, 


GiL 


Gil ; I no me ve ? 


Don't you fee me ? Gil. 


Eufebio, 


Eufebio, 


Elle villano. 


This fwain. 


Aunque le veis inocente. 


Though fo innocent appearing. 


Conoce notablemente 


Knows each natural bound and mearing 


Defta tierra monte y llano. 


Of this land here, hill and plain ; 


y en el lera nuellra guia : 


He will be our guide by-and-by 


Fuera dello, al campo ira 


Through it, nay, he will repair 


Del enemigo, 7 fera 


To the enemy's camp, and there 


En el mi perdida efpia. 


A61 the defperate part of fpy. — 


Arcabuz le podeis dar. 


Give him then an arquebufs. 


Y un vellido. 


And a foldier's drefs. 


Celio.'' 


Celio,"" 


Ya ella aqui. 


They're here. 


Gil ^ 


Gil, 


Tengan laftima de mi. 


Woe the day that I appear 


Que me quedo a embandolear.f 


Robber-raw-recruited thus ! 


[Eufebio. 


\_Eufebio. 


I Quien eres tu ? 


Who art thou ? 


Pintor, 


Painter. 


Yo, feiiior. 


Sir, my confeflion 


Soy de nacion jinoves ; 


I can make to you with eafe : — 


A Florencia pafo, y es 


I'm by birth a Genoefe, 


Mi ejercicio el de pintor. 


And a painter by profeffion. 


Llevo a Celio Batiftela, 


I to Celio Batiftela, 


Un ilorentin poderofo. 


Of Florence, this fine pifture bear 


Aquefte retrato hermofo. 


Of a lady young and fair. 


Que es de Madama Florela ; 


Call'd Madama la Florela, 


Que el me mando que lo hiciefe. 


)^Y him order'd, to him fold. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Muellra, a ver. j Hermofa dama ! 


Let me fee it. A fair dame 


I Como dice qui ? Madama 


Truly 1 but why write her name 


* " Rkardor Huefca Edition. 


f " tf bandolearJ''' Huefca Edition. 



286 LA DEFOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Florela, 


'Neath it? 


Gil. 


Gil. 


Oye : el cuento es efe 


Lift ! a tale doth run 


De un pintor que hizo un retrato 


Of a painter to whom fat 


De un gato ; y porque fupiefe 


For her pidure Pufs : below her, 


De quien era quien le viefe, 


So that every one might know her, 


Pufo abajo : *' Aquefte es gato." 


He infcribed, " This is a cat." 


Pintor, 


Painter. 


No es defeto en la pintura 


No defedl is 't in a painting 


Traer efcrito fu nombre ; 


That it Ihould its own name bear; 


Que nadie habra a quien no afombre 


Here's a figure, howfoe'er. 


Ella imitada ligura. 


One can gaze at without fainting. 


Y yo Toy el que pintar 


I am he who taught the art 


Enfeno los naturales 


Of depiding fruits and trees 


Arboles y frutas, tales 


After Nature : they fo pleafe 


Que fe pueden admirar 


Thofe that fee them, that they ftart, 


Los hombres ; pues cuando imito 


Wondering at them. My own fight. 


La variedad, y la veo 


Feeding on their fair variety. 


Queda fin hambre el defeo. 


Makes me furfeit to fatiety. 


Sin defeo el apetito. 


Takes the edge oiF appetite. 


Eufebio, 


Eufebio. 


Si en ti perfecion tan bella 


If to fuch extreme perfedion 


Ha alcanzado la pintura. 


Painting hath progrelT'd with thee. 


Gran genero de locura 


'Tis a great abfurdity 


Es no aprovecharte della. 


Not to ufe it for refeftion. 


Atalde aqui ; y li mirare 


Tie him there : no fear he faints. 


La variedad de las flores. 


Flowers to him are like a falad ; 


Dadle paleta y colores ; 


Give him fome colours and a pallet. 


Coma de lo que pintare. 


Let him eat of what he paints. 


Ricardo. 


Ricardo. 


Vamos. 


Let us go. 


Gil. 


Gil. 


Llevad de camino 


And on the way. 


Aquella epigrama brava 


Take with you this clever epigram. 


Que * * * * 


Which * * * * 


Hizo un ingenio divino, — 


A great genius made one day : — 


" Galanes, damas hermofas. 


*' Fabio, a many an hour. 


Baratas fueles vender. 


To gallants and ladies fair. 


Saliendo de tu poder 


Things you fell, nor rich nor rare 



THE DEMOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 287 


Ellas y otras muchas cofas. 


Which mull pafs from out your power. 


Fabio, con mano no efcafa 


Put into your Ihop your fpoufe, — 


Pon tu mujer en la tienda. 


Wondrous then will grow your pelf. 


Que aunque mil veces fe venda 


Since, though -oft Ihe fells herfelf. 


Siempre fe te queda en cafa." 


Still Ihe never leaves your houfe. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Tu, I quien eres ? 


Thou, who art thou ? 


AJirologo. 


Afirologer. 


Senor, Toy 


Sir, I am 


Aftrologo. 


An afirologer. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio, 


Buen oficio. 


A good employment. 


Aftrologo. 


Afirologer. 


Aunque fe tiene por vicio ; 


Yes, it's not without enjoyment : 


Pero ahora a Francia voy 


I am going to France to cram 


A enfeiiar aftrologia. 


Pupils in the Harry art. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


I Y tu la fabes ? 


And you know it ? 


Aftrologo. 


Afirologer. 


Yo he fido 


I am one 


Quien los pafos ha medido 


Who hath track'd the path of the fun 


Al fol que ilumina el dia. 


Through the heavens as on a chart. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Si pudo tu ciencia ver 


If your vilion is fo clear. 


Tanto, I por que no previno 


Why did you forefee not, fay. 


Lo que en aquefte camino 


As you journey'd on your way. 


Te habia de fuceder ? 


What would happen to you here ? 


Aftrologo. 


Afirologer. 


Ya tenia yo mirado 


Nought of that, fir, was conceal'd. 


Que en el camino que figo 


For I knew by deiliny 


Habia de topar contigo. 


I was doom'd to meet with thee. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Pues dime que has alcanzado 


Tell me what has been reveal'd 


De lo que he de hacer aqui. 


Of thy fate here now with me. 


Aftrologo . 


Afirologer. 


Ya he vifto en efetos llanos 


I have learn'd my fate commands 


Que he de morir a tus manos. 


That I perifh by thy hands. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Vete libre, porque all 


Then, to prove fate wrong, go free. 



288 LA DEVOCIOB 


' DE LA CRUZ, 


Conozcas de tu ignorancia 


Thus thou'lt know thine auguries 


El error, que defde el fuelo 


Are but error's monftrous birth. 


No fe ha de medir el cielo. 


Knowing little of the earth. 


Que es infinita diftancia. 


Knowing nothing of the fkies. 


GiL 


GiL 


Efcucheme. A un licenciado 


Hear me. A licentiate, read 


En eflrellas, mato an dia 


In all ftar-lore, by a horfe 


Una beftia : all decia 


Once was kilFd, and o'er the corfe 


Adonde ellaba enterrado : 


Where 'twas buried this was faid : — 


" Yace un aftrologo, cuya 


" An aftrologer, o'erthrown 


Ciencia a todos anunciaba 


By his Heed, here lies : he told 


La fuerte, y nunca acertaba 


Death-days round to young and old. 


A pronofticar la fuya. 


But could never tell his own. 


Un cadaver vio en cenizas 


The firft corfe (fo runs the fable) 


Su cadaver : que defvelo 


That met his exclaim'd, ' My eyes ! 


Tal entender pudo el cielo 


You that underftood the Ikies, 


Mas no a las caballerizas." 


To know nothing of the liable!"* 


Eufebio, 


Eufebio. 


iYtu? 


Thou art too .... ? 


Poeta. 


Poet, 


Efpanol ; mi ejercicio 


A Spaniard : my 


Hacer verfos : foy poera 


Bufinefs to write verfe ; in faft 


En efeto ; que efta feta 


I'm a poet : few can a6l 


Algunos la han hecho oficio. 


Better in that way than I. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Muchos he oido decir 


There are many who, like you. 


Que ocupan aquefa parte. 


Try to play the poet's part. 


GiL 


GiL 


Como fe efcriben fin arte. 


Thofe who fcribble without art 


Son faciles de efcribir. 


Find it eafy work to do. 


Poeta. 


Poet, 


I Que mas arte han de tener. 


Why, what greater art can be 


Senor, que haber de agradar 


Than to tickle a whole town. 


Entero a, todo un lugar 


Pleafe the taftes of clerk and clown. 


Pues jueces vienen a fer 


Since your judges they mull be — 


El difcreto, y ignorante. 


Wife and foolifh, faint and finner. 


Que juzgan fin atencion 


Paffing fentence like omnifcience. 


De mirar a cuyos Ton ; 


Heedlefs of their own deficience ; 


Pues quieren que un principiante 


Who require too a beginner 



THE DEVOTION OF THE CROSS. 



Tenga el mifmo efti]o y ciencia 
Que un anciano, iin mirar 
Que a efo fe han de aventajar 
Ochenta anos de experiencia ? 

Eufebio. 
En tus razones fe ve 
Que fiempre en vofotros lidia 
Envidia y pafion. 

Poeta. 

Si envidia 
Quien no tiene para que 
Dejen de envidiarme a mi. 
Eufebio, 
* * * * 

Con irte vivo y dejarte. 

Gil, 
Copla hay tambien para ti. 
De la comedia es dudofo. 
En fin : que indeterminado, 
Lo que al ignorante agrado, 
Canfa al fin al ingeniofo, 
Bufca, Lifardo, otros modos. 
Si fama quieres ganar ; 
Que es dificil de cortar 
Veftidos que venga a todos.] 

Eufebio, 
I Quien esf efe gentil hombre. 
Que el roftro encubre ? 

Ricardo. 

No ha fido 
Pofible, que haya querido 
Decir la patria, ni el nombre ; 
Porque al Capitan no mas 
Dice que lo ha de decir. 



Should have the fame fkill and Ilyle 
Of one older in fuch matters. 
Not relieving on the latter's 
Eighty years' ufe of the file ? 

Eufebio. 
From your arguments 'tis feen 
How for ever with you dwell 
Spleen and envy. 

Poet. 

If to fwell 
'Gainft injufiice be call'd fpleen, 
I'm content it fo fhould be. 

Eufebio. 
* * * * 

Go, I let thee live, be off! 

Gil. 
Take this rhyme along with thee : — 
Since, howe'er the poet tries. 
Doubtful is his drama's fate, 
For what may the crowd elate, 
The judicious may defpife. 
\i you're feeking for fame's prizes. 
Try fome method lefs remote. 
For 'tis hard to cut a coat 
That will fuit all forts of fizes.*] 

Eufebio. 
Who's this gentleman, whofe aim 
Is to hide his face ? 

Ricardo, 

In vain 
Have we afk'd him to explain 
What's his country or his name ; 
To the captain of our band 
Thefe he only will avow. 



* " If this mutilated and erroneoufly attributed fragment," fays Serior Hartzenbufch, "is Cal- 
deron's, The Devotion of the Crofs muft be one of his earlieft dramas, written probably when he was 
a ftudent at Salamanca, where he remained till his nineteenth year." 

•f- " _y i^uien es el gentil hombre^'' &c. Huefca Ed. 



F P 



290 LA DEFOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Bien te puedes defcubrir. 


Then you may declare them now. 


Pues ya en mi prefencia eftas.* 


Since before his face you ftand. 


Julia. 


Julia. 


I Sois el Capitan ? 


Are you the captain ? 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Si. 


True. 


Julia (apart e). 


Julia {afide). 


i Ay Dios ! 


Too true ! 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Dime quien eres, y a. que 


Tell me who you are, and why 


Vinifte. 


You have come here. 


Julia. ^ 


Julia. 


Yo lo dire. 


I'll reply 


Eftando folos los dos. 


When we are alone, we two. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Retiraos todos un poco. 


All of you retire awhile. 


\_Fanfeyy que dan los dos folos. 


\_Exeunt all but Julia and Eusebio. 


Ya eftas a folas conmigo. 


Now that thou'rt alone here with me. 


Solo arboles y flores 


Having only trees and flowers 


Pueden fer mudos teftigos 


Silently to look and liften 


De tus voces ; quita el velo 


To thy words, remove the veil 


Con que cubierto has traido 


With which cover'd thou haft hidden 


El roftro, y dime : i quien eres ? 


Half thy face, and fay who art thou. 


I Donde vas ? i que has pretendido ? 


Whither goeft thou, here what brings 


Habla. 


thee ; — 




Speak ! 


Julia. 


Julia. 


Porque de una vez 


That you may know at once 


\Saca la efpada. 


\fDraws her f word. 


Sepas a lo que he venido. 


What it is that brings me hither. 


Y quien foy, faca la efpada ; 


Who I am too, draw thy fword ; 


Pues defta manera digo. 


Since I mean to fay in this way 


Que foy quien viene a matarte. 


That to kill thee I have come here. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Con la defenfa relifto 


In defence I make refiftance 


Tu ofadia y mi temor. 


To thy daring and my doubt. 


Porque mayor habia iido 


Since it feems to me that bigger 


* " Con el capitan ejias." Huefca Ed. 





THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 291 


De la accion, que de la voz. 


Is thine a6lion, than thy voice. 


Julia, 


Julia. 


Riiie, cobarde, conmigo. 


Fight then, coward, fight then with me. 


Y veras, que con tu muerte 


And thou'lt fee that with thy death 


Vida y confufion te quito. 


Life and doubt at once Ihall quit thee. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Yo por defenderme mas. 


I in my defence, much more 


Que por ofenderte, riiio ; 


Than for thy leaft hurt, light with thee. 


Que ya tu vida me importa. 


Feeling even now an intereft 


Pues li en efte defafio 


In thy life ; fince if I kill thee 


Te mato, no fe por que. 


In this ftrife, I know not wherefore, 


Y li me matas, lo mifmo. 


And 'tis fo if me thou killeft. 


Defcubrete ahora pues. 


Then difcover thyfelf now. 


Si te agrada. 


If it pleafe thee. 


Julia, 


Julia. 


Bien has dicho. 


Thou fpeak'ft wifely. 


Porque en venganzas de honor. 


Since, when honour cries for vengeance. 


Sino es que confte el calligo 


If the hand of the challifer 


Al que fue ofenfor, no queda 


Is unknown unto the wronger. 


Satisfecho el ofendido. \_Defcubrefe. 


Full revenge is not inflifted. 


I Conocefme ? i que te efpantas ? 


\_She dif covers h erf elf. 


I Que me miras ? 


Doll thou know me ? Whence this terror ? 




Why thus gaze ? 


Eufebio, 


Eufebio. 


Que rendido 


Becaufe bewildered. 


A la verdad yak duda. 


Loll in mingled truth and doubt. 


En confufos defvarios, 


In confufions fo confliding, 


Me efpanto de lo que veo. 


I am fhock'd at what I fee. 


Me afombro de lo que miro. 


I am feared at what I witnefs. 


Julia. 


Julia. 


Ya me has vifto. 


Well, thou'll feen me. 


Eufebio, 


Eufebio. 


Si, y de verte 


Yes, and feeing thee 


Mi confufion ha crecido 


So with new confulion fills me 


Tanto, que li antes de ahora 


That if but a moment hence 


Alterados mis fentidos 


My dillurb'd and doubting wilhes 


Defearon verte, ya 


Long'd to fee thee, even already 


Defenganados, lo mifmo. 


Difabufed, they now would give here 


Que dieran antes por verte. 


The fame price to fee thee not. 



292 LA DEFOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Dieran por no haberte vifto. 


That to fee thee they'd have given. 


I Tu, Julia, en aqelle monte ? 


Thou here, Julia, in this mountain ? 


I Tu con profano veftido, 


Thou, profanely drefT'd, committefl: 


Dos veces violento en ti ? 


Thus a two-fold facrilege 


I Como Tola aqui has venido ? 


'Gainll: thyfelf : why haft thou hither 


I Que es efto ? 


Come alone ? What's this ? 


Julia. 


Julia. 


Defprecios tuyos 


Thy fcorn 


Son, y defengaiios mios. 


And my dilillufion is it : — 


Y porque veas, que es flecha 


And to fhow thee that an arrow 


Difparada, ardiente tiro. 


Shot in air, a burning miffile. 


Veloz rayo, una muger. 


A fwift lightning-bolt's a woman 


Que corre tras fu apetito, 


Who to paffion doth fubmit her. 


No folo me han dado gufto 


Not alone do I feel pleafure 


Los pecados cometidos 


In the fins I have committed 


Halla ahora, mas tambien 


Until now, but I do even 


Me le dan, fi los repito. 


Feel it in their repetition. 


Sail del convento, fui 


I my convent left, and fled 


Al monte, y porque me dijo 


To the mountain, where a fimple 


Un paftor, que mal guiada 


Shepherd having faid I was taking 


Iba por aquel camino. 


The wrong pathway through the thicket. 


Neciamente temerofa. 


Him, through foolifli fearfulnefs. 


Por evitar mi peligro. 


And to filence thus a witnefs 


Le afegure, y le di muerte. 


Of my flight, I put to death. 


Siendo inftrumento un cuchillo. 


A rude knife, which at his girdle 


Que el en fu cinta traia. 


Hung fufpended; being the weapon. 


Con efte, que fue minillro 


With this weapon, the inflidler 


De la muerte, a un caminante. 


Thus of death, a traveller. 


Que cortefmente previno 


Who had courteoufly provided. 


En las ancas de un caballo, 


On the haunches of his horfe. 


A tanto canfancio alivio. 


Reft for my long-travell'd tirednefs, 


A la vifta de una aldea, 


When we came in fight of a village, 


Porque entrar en elk quifo. 


Him, becaufe he wifh'd to bide there. 


Le pague en un defpoblado 


In a lonely place I paid 


Con la muerte el beneiicio. 


Back with -death for all his kindnefs. 


Tres dias fueron, y noches 


Three long days and nights I fpent 


Los que aquel delierto me hizo 


In that defert, which provided 


Mefa de lilveftres plantas. 


With its cold rocks for my bed. 


Lecho de peiiafcos frios. 


For my fcant food with its wild herbs. 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 293 


Llegue a una pobre cabana. 


I approach'd a I0WI7 cabin. 


A cuyo techo pajizo 


Whofe ftraw roof appeared to gliften. 


Juzgue pavellon dorado 


To m7 tired and languid fpirits. 


En la paz de mis fentidos. 


Lovelier than a gold pavilion. 


Liberal huefpeda fue 


There a Ihepherd's wife the part 


Una ferrana conmigo. 


Pla7'd of liberal hoftefs v^rith me. 


Compitiendo en los defeos 


Rivalling the fwain, her hufband. 


Con el pallor fu marido. 


In all kindl7 afts and wifhes. 


A la hambre y al canfancio 


Wearinefs and hunger long 


Deje en fu albergue rendidos 


Could not in that lodging linger. 


Con buena mefa, aunque pobre. 


With its food though I0WI7, clean, 


Manjar, aunque humilde, limpio. 


With its fare fo good, though fimple ; 


Pero al defpedirme dellos. 


But at leaving I determined. 


Habiendo antes prevenido, 


With a fatal fix'd previfion. 


Que al bufcarme no pudiefen 


That to m7 purfuers never 


Decir : " nofotros la vimos ;" 


Should the7 fa7, " Yes, here we hid her." 


Al cortes paftor, que al monte 


So I flew the courteous fliepherd 


Salio a enfenarme el camino. 


Who had come fome wa7 to guide me 


Mate, 7 entre donde luego 


Through the mountain, and returning, 


Hago en fu muger lo mifmo. 


Did the fame thing to his wife there. 


Mas conliderando entonces. 


But confidering that I carried 


Que en el propio trage mio 


A detector and a fpier 


Mi pefquifidor llevaba. 


In mine own drefs, I determined 


Mudarmele determino. 


In another to difguife me. 


Al fin, pues, por varios cafos. 


And at length, with various fortune. 


Con las armas 7 el veftido 


In the arms and the equipment 


De un cazador, CU70 fueno. 


Of a hunter, whofe found flumber 


No imagen, trafunto vivo 


No mere fancied t7pe or image 


Fue de la muerte, llegue 


Was of death, I here have wander'd. 


Aqui, venciendo peligros. 


Conquering ever7 rifk and hindrance. 


Defpreciando inconvenientes. 


Ever7 obftacle defpifing. 


Y atropellando defignios. 


Trampling all that would refill me. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Con tanto afombro te efcucho. 


With fuch terror do I fee thee. 


Con tanto temor te miro, 


With fuch horror do I liHen, 


Que eres al oido encanto. 


To m7 fight thou art a bafililk. 


Si a la vifta bafilifco. 


To m7 hearing thou'rt bewitchment ; 


Julia, 70 no te defprecio. 


I do not defpife thee, Julia, 


Pero temo los peligros 

i 


But I fear the fure though hidden 



294 LA DEVOCIOh 


' DE LA CRUZ, 


Con que el cielo me amenaza. 


Dangers with which Heaven doth threat 


Y por efo me re tiro. 


me. 


Vuelvete tu a tu convent© ; 


Therefore mull I not Hay with thee. 


Que yo temerofo vivo 


Thou return unto thy convent ; 


De efa Cruz tanto, que huyo 


For fuch holy awe doth give me 


De ti. — I Mas que es elle ruido ? 


That ftrange Crofs of thine, I fly 




From thee, — But what noife comes 




hither ? 


Salen los Bandoleros, 


Enter Ricardo and other bandits. 


Ricardo, 


Ricardo. 


Preven, feiior, la defenfa ; 


Sir, prepare for thy defence, — 


Que apartados del camino. 


For, departing from the highway. 


Al monte Curcio 7 fu gente 


Curcio and his people all 


En bufca tuya han falido. 


Up the mountain's lides are climbing ; 


De todas efas aldeas 


For from all thefe villages 


Tanto el numero ha crecido. 


Hath increafed fo his enhftment. 


Que han venido contra ti 


That againft thee now come on 


Viejos, mugeres y ninos. 


Even the old men, women, children. 


Diciendo, que ha de vengar 


Saying that he comes for vengeance 


En tu fangre la de un hijo 


In thy blood, for a fon death-ftricken 


Muerto a tus manos, y jura 


By thy hands, and he has vow'd 


De llevarte por calligo. 


For thy challifement to bring thee. 


por venganza de tantos. 


Or for his revenge, in chains 


Prefo a Sena, muerto 6 vivo. 


To Siena, dead or living. 


Eufebio, 


Eufebio. 


Julia, defpues hablaremos. 


Julia, more we'll fpeak anon. 


Cubre el roftro, y ven conmigo ; 


Veil thy face now and come with me, 


Que no es bien, que en poder quedes 


Left thou fall into the hands 


De tu padre y mi enemigo. — 


Of my enemy and thy fire here. — 


Soldados, efte es el dia 


Soldiers, this is now the day 


De moftrar aliento y brio. 


To difplay your ftrength and fpirit! 


Porque ninguno defmaye. 


That no craven heart be here. 


Conlidere, que atrevidos 


Think that thefe expeftant viftors 


Vienen a darnos la muerte. 


Hither come to give us death. 


prendernos, que es lo mifmo : 


Or, what's worfe, to make us prifoners ; 


Y fi no, en publica carcel. 


If fo in a public gaol. 


De defdichas perfeguidos. 


By a thoufand ills afflided. 


Y fin honra nos veremos. 


Without honour we ftiall fee us. 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 295 


Pues fi efto hemos conocido. 


If then this we have admitted. 


I For la vida, y por la honra. 


Who is there for life, for honour. 


Quien temio el mayor peligro ? 


That will fear the greater rilk here ? 


No pienfen que los tememos, 


Let them think not that we fear them ; 


Salgamos a recibirlos ; 


Let us forth and meet them firll then. 


Que fiempre ella la fortuna 


Since is fortune on the fide 


De parte del atrevido. 


Ever of the boldeft Ipirits. 


Ricardo. 


Ricardo. 


No hay que falir ; que ya llegan 


There's no need to go, for they 


A nofotros. 


Are already here. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Prevenios, 


Be firm then. 


Y ninguno fea cobarde ; 


And let no one play the coward ; 


Que, vive el cielo ! li miro 


For, as Heaven lives ! if I witnefs 


Huir alguno 6 retirarfe. 


One of you or fly or falter. 


Que he de efangrentar los filos 


I my fword's edge fhall encrimfon 


De aquefte acero en fu pecho 


In his heart's blood, rather than 


Primero que en mi enemigo. 


In the enemy's that I fight with. 


Dentro Curcio. 


Curcio {within). 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


En lo encubierto del monte 


In the heart here of the mountain. 


Al traidor Eufebio he vifto. 


I have feen Eufebio hidden. 


Y para inutil defenfa 


And the wretch, in vain defence. 


Hace murallas fus rifcos. 


Makes a rampart of thefe cliffs here. 


Faces {^dentro). 


Foices {within). 


Ya entre las efpefas ramas 


Through thefe thick o'erhanging boughs 


Defde aqui los defcubrimos. 


We already can defcry them. 


Julia. 


Julia. 


i A ellos ! [Vafe. 


On them ! \_Exit. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio, 


Efperad, villanos ; 


Wait for us, bafe peafants ! 


Que ; vive Dios ! que teiiidos 


For, as God doth live ! befprinkled 


Con vueftra fangre los campos 


With your blood, the fields fhall run 


Han de fer undofos rios. 


Rippling red like wavy rivers. 


Ricardo. 


Ricardo. 


De los cobardes villanos 


Very numerous is the crowd 


Es el numero excelivo. 


Of thefe craven herds and hinds here. 



296 LA DEFOCION DE LA CRUZ. 


Curcio {dentro). 


Curcio {within). 


I Adonde, Eufebio, te efcondes ? 


Where, Eufebio, art thou hid ? 


Eujebio, 


Eufebio. 


No me efcondo, que ya te ligo. 


Thee I feek, I am not hidden. 


\_Vanfe todos, y dijparan arcabuces 


\_Exeunt all: Jhots are heard within. 


dentro » 




Sale Julia. 


Enter Julia. 


Julia, 


Julia. 


Del monte que yo he bufcado 


Scarcely have I trod the grafs 


Apenas las yerbas pifo. 


Of this mountain's fought-for ridges. 


Cuando horribles voces oigo. 


When I hear tumultuous cries. 


Marciales campaiias miro : 


When the ftrife of war I witnefs ; 


Be la polvora los ecos. 


By the echoes of the powder. 


Y del acero los filos. 


By the gleam of fwords that glitter. 


Unos ofenden la villa. 


Dazzled is the eye that fees them. 


Y otros turban el oido. 


Deafen'd is the ear that liflens ; — 


I Mas que es aquello que veo ? 


But, alas ! what's this I fee ? 


Delbaratado y vencido 


Put to rout, and backward driven. 


Todo el efcuadron de Eufebio 


All the fquadron of Eufebio 


Le deja ya al enemigo. 


Leave him to the enemy's will there. 


Quiero volver a juntar 


I'll return and reunite 


Toda la gente que ha habido 


All the followers he had with him. 


De Eufebio, y volver a darle 


I'll return and give him aid ; — 


Favor ; que fi los animo. 


For if them I thus infpirit. 


Sere en fu defenfa afombro 


I in his defence will be 


Del mundo, fere cuchillo 


The world's terror, the Fates' fwiftlhears. 


De la Parca, eftrago fiero 


The fierce ruin of their lives. 


De fus vidas, vengativo 


To the future times the fymbol 


Efpanto de los futuros. 


Of revenge, and th' admiration 


Y admiracion deflos liglos. \yafe. 


Of the ages that we live in. \Exit. 


Sale Gil de bandolero. 


Enter Gil drejfed as a bandit. 


Gil. 


Gil. 


For eftar feguro, apenas 


To preferve my Ikin, I fcarcely 


Fui bandolero novicio. 


Have commenced my thieve's noviciate. 


Cuando, por fer bandolero. 


When the being a bandolero 


Me veo en tanto peligro. 


Is, I fee, a dangerous bulinefs ; — 


Cuando yo era labrador. 


When I was a labourer. 



THE DEVOTION 


OE THE CROSS. 297 


Eran ellos los vencidos ; 


My fide was it that was lick'd then. 


Y hoy, porque foy de la carda. 


And to-day, for being a tramper. 


Va fucediendo lo mifmo. 


With the fame luck I'm afflidled ! 


Sin fer avariento traigo 


Though no mifer, in my pocket 


La defventura conmigo ; 


I misfortune carry with me ; 


Pues tan defgraciado (oy. 


Since fo evil-ftarr'd am I, 


Que mil veces imagino. 


That it ftrikes me many a minute, 


Que, a fer 70 Judio, fueran 


That if ever I turn'd Jew, 


Defgraciados los Judios, 


Jews themfelves could be outwitted. 


Salen Menga, Bras, Tmzo y otros 


Enter Menga, Bras, Tirso, and 


villanos. 


other pea/ants. 


Menga. 


Menga. 


\ A ellos, que van huyendo ! 


After them ! for they are flying ! 


Bras. 


Bras. 


No ha de quedar uno vivo 


On ! no quarter mufl be given, — 


Tan folamente. 


Let not one furvive ! 


Menga. 


Menga. 


Hacia aqui 


See, here 


Uno dellos fe ha efcondido. 


One of them is flyly hidden ! 


Bras. 


Bras. 


Muera efte ladron. 


Kill the robber ! 


Gil 


Gil 


Mirad, 


Ah! now fee 


Que yo Toy. 


Who I am. 


Menga. 


Menga. 


Ya nos ha dicho 


That you're a brigand 


El trage, que es bandolero. 


Has your drefs already told us. 


Gil, 


Gil 


El trage les ha mentido. 


Then my drefs lies Hke a villain 


Como muy grande bellaco. 


And a rafcal to have faid fo. 


Menga. 


Menga. 


Dale tu. 


Give it to him 1 


Bras. 


Bras. 


Pegale digo. 


Pay him off quickly ! 


Gil 


Gil 


Bien dado eftoy y pegado : 


I've been paid, and got it foundly, — 


Advertid . . . 


See, conlider ! . . . 



Q.O. 



298 LA DEFOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Tirfo. 


Tirfo. 


No hay que advertirnos. 


We conlider 


Bandolero fois. 


Only you're a thief. 


Gil. 


Gil. 


Mirad 


That / am 


Que foy Gil, votado a Criilo ! 


Gil, I call all Heaven to witnefs. 


Menga. 


Menga. 


I Pues no hablaras antes, Gil ? 


Why not fay fo fooner, Gil ? 


Tirfo. 


Tirfo. 


Pues, Gil, I no lo hubieras dicho ? 


Gil, why fay not fo at firft, then ? 


Gil. 


Gil. 


I Que mas antes, li el yo foy 


How, what fooner, when I told you 


Os dije defde el principio ? 


From the firft I was myfelf here ? 


Menga. 


Menga, 


1 Que haces aqui ? 


What are you doing ? 


Gil. 


Gil. 


I No lo veis ? 


Don't you fee ? 


Ofendo a Dies en el quinto. 


I'm a-breaking juft the fifth— tenth 


Mato folo mas, que juntos 


Of the commandments, killing more 


Un medico y un ellib. 


Than the fummer and a phyfician. 


Menga. 


Menga. 


J Que trage es efte ? 


What's this drefs? 


Gil, 


Gil. 


Es el diablo. 


It is the devil, — 


Mate a uno, y fu veftido 


One of them I kill'd, and rigg'd me 


Me pufe. 


In his drefs then. 


Menga. 


Menga. 


I Pues como, di. 


But fay, why 


No efta de fangre teiiido. 


Is the drefs not ftain'd, if you kill'd 


Si le matafte ? 


him. 




With his blood? 


Gil. 


Gil. 


Efo es facil ; 


Oh ! that is eafy 


Murio de miedo, efta ha fido 


To explain, the caufe is limple. 


La caufa. 


'Twas of fear he died. 


Menga. 


Menga. 


Ven con nofotros. 


Come with us. 


Que vidloriofos feguimos 


For viftorious the banditti 


Los bandoleros, que ahora 


We purfue, for now the cowards 



THE DEVOTION OF THE CROSS, 



^99 



Cobardes nos han huido. 

Gil, 
No mas veflido, aunque vaya 
Titiritando de frio. [Fanfe, 

Salen peleando Eusebio y Curcio. 

Curcio. 
Ya ellamos folos los dos, 
Gracias al cielo que quifo 
Dar la venganza a mi mano 
Hoy, fm haber remitido 
A las agenas mi agravio, 
Ni tu muerte a agenos filos. 

Eufebio. 
No ha lido en ella ocalion 
Airado el cielo conmigo, 
Curcio, en haberte encontrado ; 
Porque li tu pecho vino 
Ofendido, volvera 
Caftigado y ofendido. 
Aunque no fe que refpeto 
Has puefto en mi, que he temido 
Mas tu enojo, que tu acero : 
Y aunque pudieran tus brios 
Darme temor, folo temo, 
Cuando aquefas canas miro. 
Que me hacen cobarde. 

Curcio. 

Eufebio, 
Yo confiefo, que has podido 
Templar en mi de la ira. 
Con que agraviado te miro. 
Gran parte ; pero no quiero. 
Que pienfes inadvertido, 
Que te dan temor mis canas, 
Cuando puede el valor mio. 
Vuelve a reiiir ; que una eftrella, 
O algun favorable figno 



Fly before us panic-Ilricken. 

Gil. 
Catch me drefs'd again, although 
With the cold I fhake and Ihiver ! 

\Exeunt, 

Enter Eusebio and Cvrcio fighting, 

Curcio. 
Now we are alone, we two. 
Thanks to favouring Heaven thatgiveth 
Vengeance to my own right hand 
On this day, without tranfmitting 
To another's arm my wrong. 
To another's fword thy fwift death. 

Eufebio, 
Curcio, on this occalion 
Heaven has not been angry with me, 
In permitting me to meet thee ; 
Since if thou hail carried hither 
An indignant breaft, thou'lt bear it 
Back both puniih'd and indignant. 
Though I know not what refpeft 
Thou haft caufed in me, that gives me 
More fear for thy wrath than fword : 
And although thy ftrength and ipirit 
Well might fright me, I but fear 
When I fee thofe locks of iilver. 
Which a coward make me, 

Curcio. 

I 
Own, Eufebio, thou art gifted 
With fome power, to appeafe a part 
Of the wrath with which, afflidled, 
I behold thee ; but I would not 
Have thee carelefsly attribute 
To thefe hoary hairs thy fear. 
When my valour were fufficient. 
Come, renew the fight ! one ftar 
Or one planet's favouring fignal 



300 



LA DEFOCION T>E LA CRUZ, 



No es baftante a que yo pierda 
La venganza que conligo. 
Vuelve a renir. 

Eufebio. 

I Yo temor ? 
Neciamente has prefumido. 
Que es temor lo que es refpeto ; 
Aunque, li verdad te digo. 
La vi6loria que defeo 
Es, a tus plantas rendido, 
Pedirte perdon ; y a ellas 
Pongo la efpada, que ha iido 
Temor de tantos. 

Curcio. 

Eufebio, 
No has de penfar, que me animo 
A matarte con ventaja ; 
Efla es mi efpada. (All quito 

{^Aparte. 
La ocalion de dark muerte.) 
Ven a los brazos conmigo. 

\Abrazanfe los dos, y luchan. 



No fe que efedlo has hecho 

En mi, que el corazon dentro del pecho, 

A pefar de venganzas y de enojos, 

En lagrimas fe afoma por los ojos, 

Y en confufion tan fuerte, 

Quifiera, por vengarte, darme muerte. 

Vengate en mi ; rendida 

A tus plantas, feiior, eila mi vida. 



Curcio, 
El acero de un noble, aunque ofendido, 
Nofe manchaen lafangre deun rendido; 
Que quita grande parte de la gloria 



Muft not make me lofe the hope 
Of the vengeance I ambition. 
Fight anew, then! 

Eufebio. 

I to fear ? 
Oh ! thou haft prefumed too limply 
Fear in that that was refpeft ; 
Though, if I the truth admitted. 
The fole viftory I defire 
Is, thus kneeling, thy forgivenefs 
To implore ; and at thy feet 
To lay down this fword, that has given 
Fear to many a heart. 
Curcio, 

Eufebio, 
Do not think that I could kill thee 
At fuch difadvantage. Here 
Alfo is my fword ; (I rid me [AJide. 
Of the means thus of his death.) — 
Arm to arm then ftruggle with me. 
[They clofe, and ftruggle together, 

Eufebio, 
I know not by what charm polFefs'd, 
Thus with thy heart againft my breaft, 
My wrath expires, my vengeance dies. 
In tender tears that gulh from out mine 

eyes. 
So I implore thee, thus with trembling 

breath, 
Confufed, amazed, to give me inftant 

death ; 
Take thy revenge, I terminate the 

ftrife. 
My lord, by laying at thy feet my life. 

Curcio, 
A brave man's fword, how wrathful 

be his mood, 
Is never ftain'd in the defencelefs blood 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 301 


El que con fangre borra la viftoria. 


Of a fallen foe : for war's triumphant 




llory, [half its glory. 




If writ in needlefs blood, is fhorn of 


Voces {dentro). 


Voices {within). 


Hacia aqui eftan. 


Here, here they are. 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


Mi gente viftoriofa 


My vi6lor troop comes here 


Viene a bufcarme, cuando tetnerofa 


To feek me, while thy followers in fear 


La tuya vuelve huyendo. 


Fly from the unfuccefsful ftrife. 


Darte vida pretendo ; 


I wilh to fave thy life ; — 


Efcondete ; que en vano 


Conceal thyfelf,for I would vainly ftrive 


Defendere el enojo vengativo 


Thee to defend againft a band 


De un efcuadron villano, 


Of vengeful peafants fword in hand. 


Y folo tu, impofible es quedar vivo. 


And thou againft fo many fcarce couldft 




live. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Yo, Curcio, nunca huyo 


I, Curcio, never fly 


Deotropoder, aunque hetemido eltuyo ; 


From any power, though thine I've 


Que ii mi mano aquefta efpada cobra. 


fear'd to try ; 


Veras, cuanto valor en ti me falta. 


But if my hand this fword uplifts again. 


Que en tu gente me fobra. 


Thou'lt fee the valour that 'gainft thee 




proved weak 




Can aft its wonted part ftill on thy men. 


Salen Octavio y todos los villanos. 


Enter Octavio with a crowd of 




peafants. 


OBavio. 


06ia-jio. 


Defde el mas hondo valle a la mas alta 


From deepeft valley to the higheft peak 


Cumbre de aqueftemonte no ha quedado 


Of this vaft mountain, not a foul our 


Alguno vivo ; folo fe ha efcapado 


wrath 


Eufebio,porque huyendo aquefta tarde . . 


Has left alive : Eufebio only hath 




Efcaped, for flying as the evening 




lower'd .... 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


Mientes ; que Eufebio nunca fue cobarde. 


Thou lieft ! Eufebio never was a coward. 


Todos. 


All. 


I Aqui efta Eufebio ? \ Muera ! 


Eufebio here ? The monfter let us flay ! 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio. 


i Llegad, villanos ! 


Villains, come on ! 



302 



LA DEFOCION DE LA CRUZ, 



Curcio, 
\ Tente, Oftavio, efpera ! 
OSiavio. 
I Pues tu, fenor, que habias 
De animarnos, ahora defconfias ? 



Bras. 
I Un hombre amparas, que en tu fangre 

y honra 
Introdujo el acero y la defhonra ? 

Gil. 
I A un hombre, que atrevido 
Toda aquefta montana ha deftruido ? 
A quien en el aldea no ha dejado 
Melon, doncella, que el no haya catado, 
Y a quien tantos ha muerto, 
I Como all le defiendes ? 



06lavio, 
I Que es, lenor, lo que dices ? i que pre- 
tendes t 

Curcio. 
Efperad, efcuchad, (j trifle fucefo !) 
^- Cuanto es mejor que a Sena vaya prefo ? 
Date a prilion, Eufebio ; que prometo, 
Y como noble juro, de ampararte, 
Siendo abogado tuyo, aunque foy parte. 



Eufebio. 
Como a Curcio no mas, yo me rindiera, 
Mas como a juez, no puedo ; 
Porque aquel es refpeto, y efte es miedo. 



Curcio. 
Oh ! hold, Odlavio, ftay ! 
OSfavio. 
How, fir, canll thou, that fliouldft in- 

fpirit us. 
Now interpofe and check our vengeance 
thus ? 

Bras. 
Canll thou defend a man whofe bloody 

aim 
Thy name and blood has ftain'd with 
blood and Ihame ? 
Gil. 
A man whofe daring no rellraint e'er 

bound. 
Who ravaged all this mountain region 

round. 
Who left no village in the wild unwalled. 
Nor melon's juice, nor maiden's lip 

un tailed ? 
Is it for killing of fo many people 
Him thus you will defend ? 

OBavio. 
What is it, fir, you fay ? What thus in- 
tend ? 

Curcio. 
Oh ! lillen. Hay ! (unhappy fate !) to 

me 
Seems it far better in captivity 
To lead him to Siena : yield, Eufebio, 

yield, 
I give my knightly word to guard thy 

fate. 
And though thy accufer, be thy advo- 
cate. 

Eufebio. 
To thee, as Curcio, I perchance might 

yield me. 
But to a judge I cannot; fince 'tis clear 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS, 303 




The former vi^ere refpeft, the latter fear. 


O^avio. 


O^avio. 


i Muera Eufebio ! 


Eufebio, die ! 


Curcio. 


Curcio, 


Advertid .... 


Oh! hear 


OSlavio, 


05iavio, 


Pues que, { tu quieres 


What thus can move thee 


Defenderle ? i a la patria traidor eres ? 


Him to defend, and thus a traitor prove 




thee ? 


Curcio. 


Curcio, 


^•Yo traidor? Pues me agravian della 


A traitor I ? — lince thus fufpicion durft 


fuerte, 


Wrong mefo much, Eufebio, forgive me. 


Perdona, Eufebio, porque yo el primero 


That death's dark v^ound I'm doom'd 


Tengo de fer en darte trille muerte. 


to give thee firft. 


Eufebio, 


Eufebio. 


Quitate de delante. 


Oh ! fir, Hand not before me. 


Senor, porque tu villa no me eipante ; 


At fight of thee, it is not fear comes 


Que viendote, no dudo. 


o'er me ; 


Que te tenga tu gente por efcudo. 


No, but I do not doubt thy face will be 


\yanfe todos peleando con el. 


A fhield betwixt thy followers and me. 




\Exit fighting with the peafants. 




who purfue. 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


Apretandole van. \ O quien pudiera 


They prefs him hard. Oh ! who is 


Darte ahora la vida. 


there thy life. 


Eufebio, aunque la fuya mifma diera ! 


Eufebio, now can fave. 


En el monte fe ha entrado, 


Though his for thine were ofFer'd in 


Por mil partes herido. 


theftrife? 


Retirandofe baja defpenado 


Through the mountain's rocky walls 


Al valle. Voy volando. 


Hath he enterM wounded, bleeding 


Que aquella fangre fria. 


From a thoufand wounds. He falls 


Que con timida voz me efta llamando. 


Headlong to the vale ! I fly. 


Algo tiene de mia ; 


For that cold, cold blood outflown. 


Que fangre, que no fuera 


With its timid voice doth call me nigh. 


Propia, ni me llamara, ni la oyera. 


As if it were a portion of mine own; — 


\yafe. 


Were the blood not mine own, that 




voice fo clear 




Then had not power to call, nor I 




have power to hear. \_Exit. 



304 LA DEFOCION 


OF THE CROSS, 


Baja defpenado Eusebio. 


[The wildeft part of the mountain. 




Eusebio is feen lying at the foot of a 




crofs.] 


Eufebio, 


Eufebio. 


Cuando, de la vida incierto. 


From this cliff fo fteep and tall 


Me defpena ]a mas alta 


Falling headlong, almoft dead, 


Cumbre, veo que me falta 


Earth Hill fails beneath my tread. 


Tierra donde caiga muerto : 


Where a living corfe I fall ; 


Pero li mi culpa advierto. 


But when I my guilt recall. 


Al alma reconocida. 


Upward ftill my fpirit climbs. 


No el ver la vida perdida 


Unregretting vanilh'd times. 


La atormenta, lino el ver 


But with hope before I die. 


Como ha de fatisfacer 


Means to find to fatisfy 


Tantas culpas una vida. 


With one hfe fo many crimes. 


Ya me vuelve a perfeguir 


Hither the revengeful foe 


Efte efcuadron vengativo ; 


Comes my life's laft drops to drain, — 


Pues no puedo quedar vivo. 


Here the hope of life is vain. 


He de matar, 6 morir : 


I muft give or meet the blow ; 


Aunque mejor fera ir 


Though 'twere better far to go 


Donde al cielo perdon pida ; 


Where for pardon I may pray ; — 


Pero mis pafos impida 


But this Crofs, athwart my way 


La Cruz, porque delta fuerte 


Riling up, in lilence faith, — 


Ellos me den breve muerte. 


They indeed can give you death. 


Y elk me de eterna vida. 


I, the life that lafts alway. 


Arbol, donde el cielo quifo 


Tree, whereon the pitying ikies 


Dar el fruto verdadero 


Hang the true fruit love doth fweeten. 


Contra el bocado primero. 


Antidote of that firll: eaten. 


Flor del nuevo paraifo. 


Flower of man's new paradife. 


Arco de luz, cuyo avifo 


Rainbow, that to tearful eyes 


En pielago mas profundo 


Sin's receding flood difclofes, — 


La paz publico del mundo, 


Pledge that earth in peace repofes. 


Planta hermofa, fertil vid. 


Beauteous plant, all fruitful vine. 


Arpa del nuevo David, 


A newer David's harp divine. 


Tabla del Moifes fegundo : 


Table of a fecond Mofes ; — 


Pecador foy, tus favores 


Sinner am I, therefore I 


Pido por jufticia yo ; 


Claim thine aid as all mine own. 


Pues Dios en ti, padecio 


Since for linful man alone. 


Solo por los pecadores. 


God came down on thee to die : 



THE DEFOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 305 


A mi me debes tus loores ; 


Praife through me thou haft won thereby. 


Que por mi folo muriera 


Since for me would God have died. 


Dios, ii mas mundo no hubiera : 


If the world held none befide. 


Luego eres tu, Cruz, por mi ; 


Then, O Crofs ! thou'rt all for me. 


Que Dios no muriera en ti. 


Since God had not died on thee 


Si yo pecador no fuera. 


If fin's depths I had not tried. 


Mi natural devocion 


Ever for thy interceflion 


Siempre os pidio con fe tanta. 


Hath my faith implored, O Crofs ! 


No permitiefeis, Cruz fanta, 


That thou wouldft not to my lofs 


Muriefe fin confefion. 


Let me die without confeflion. 


No fere el primer ladron. 


I, repenting my tranfgreflion. 


Que en vos fe confiefe a Dios. 


Will not the firft robber be 


Y pues que ya fomos dos, 


Who on thee confefl^'d to God ; 


Y yo no le he de negar. 


Since we two the fame path trod. 


Tampoco me ha de faltar 


And repent, deny not me 


Redencion que fe obro en vos. 


The redemption wrought on thee. 


Lifardo, cuando en mis brazos 


Thou, Lifardo, though I could 


Pude ofendido matarte. 


Slay thee in my angry mood. 


Lugar di de confefarte. 


Still thefe arms were prompt to prefs 


Antes que en tan breves plazos 


thee. 


Se defatafen los lazos 


Still could bear thee to confefs thee. 


Mortales. Y ahora advierto 


Ere thy life flow'd out in blood. 


En aquel viejo, aunque muerto ; 


And the reverend man, whom I 


Piedad de los dos aguardo. 


Now recall thus faint and weak : 


j Mira que muero, Lifardo ; 


Pity from ye two I feek, — 


Mira que te 11a mo, Alberto ! 


See, Lifardo, fee, I die ! 




Hear, Alberto, hear my cry ! 


Sale CuRcio. 


Enter Curcio. 


Curcio. 


Curdo. 


Hacia aquefta parte efta. 


Here he fell, adown this fteep. 


Eufebio. 


Eufebio, 


Si es que venis a matarme. 


If thou feek'ft my life, 'twill be 


Muy poco hareis en quitarme 


Eafy now to take from me 


Vida, que no tengo ya. 


That which I no longer keep. 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


\ Que bronce no ablandara 


Oh ! an eye of bronze would weep. 


Tanta fangre derramada ! 


So much blood to fee outpour'd ! — 


Eufebio, rinde la efpada. 


Yield, Eufebio, yield thy fword. 



3o6 



LA DEFOCION DE LA CRUZ. 



Eufebio. 
I A quien ? 

Curcio. 
A Curcio. 

Eufebio. 

Efta es. \_Dafela. 
Y yo tambien a tus pies 
De aquella ofenfa pafada 
Te pido perdon. No puedo 
Hablar mas ; porque una herida 
Quita el aliento a la vida, 
Cubriendo de horror y miedo 
El alma. 

Curcio, 
Confufo quedo. 
I Sera en elk de provecho 
Remedio humano ? 

Eufebio. 

Sofpecho, 
Que la mejor medicina 
Para el alma es la divina. 

Curcio. 

I Donde es la herida ? 

Eufebio. 

En el pecho. 
Curcio. 
Dejame poner en ella 
La mano, a ver fi reiille 
El aliento. (j Ay de mi trifle !) 

[Regifira la herida, y ve la Crux. 
I Que fenal divina y bella 
Es efta, que al conocella, 
Toda el alma fe turbo ? 

Eufebio. 
Son las armas que me dio 
Efta Cruz, a cuyo pie 
Naci ; porque pias no fe 



Eufebio. 
Yield to whom ? 

Curcio. 

To Curcio. 
Eufebio. 

Ye.-^, 
\He gives his f word 
And thy feet I likewife prefs 
For that paft offence, my lord, 
Alking thy forgivenefs. Here 
Voice doth fail me, for a wound 
Stops my breath, my fenfe hath fwoon'd 
And a horror and a fear 
Fill my ioxxl. 

Curcio. 

Confufed I hear ; — 
Cannot human aid arreft 
Thy fwift-failing life ? 
Eufebio. 

The beft 
Cure for foul fo fick as mine 
Is, I feel it, the divine. 
Curcio. 
Where's thy wound ? 
Eufebio. 

'Tis in my breaft. 
Curcio. 
Let me then my hand place there. 
Thus to learn, (oh ! woe the day !) 
What its troubled throb doth fay ; — 
\^He examines the wound, and fee. 
the Crofs. 
But what mark, divine and fair. 
Is this lign my hand lays bare. 
Which to fee, my foul moves fo ? 

Eufebio. 
'Tis my creft's emblazoned glow. 
Given me by this Crofs, whofe bafe 
Was my birth's myfterious place. 



THE DEVOTION OF THE CROSS. 



307 



De mi nacimiento yo. 
Mi padre, a quien no feiialo, 
Aun la cuna me nego ; 
Que lin duda imagine. 
Que habia de fer tan malo. 
Aqui nacL 

Curcio. 

Y aqui igualo 
El dolor con el contento. 
Con el guflo el fentimiento, 
Efeflos de un hado impio 
Y agradable. j Ay hijo mio ! 
Pena y gloria en verte fiento. 
Tu eres, Eufebio, mi hijo, 
Si tantas fenas advierto. 
Que para llorarte muerto 
Ya juilamente me aflijo. 
De tus razones colijo 
Lo que el alma adivino. 
Tu madre aqui te dejo 
En el lugar que te he hallado ; 
Donde cometi el pecado. 
El cielo me caftigo. 
Ya aquefte lugar previene 
Informacion de mi error ; 
I Pero cual fena mayor. 
Que aquefta Cruz, que conviene 
Con otra que Julia tiene ? 
Que no fin mifterio el cielo 
Os feiialo, porque al fijelo 
Fuerais prodigio los dos. 

Eufebio. 

iSTo puedo hablar, padre, j a Dios ! 
Porque ya de un mortal velo 
5e cubre el cuerpo, y la muerte 
ISTiega, pafando veloz, 
ara refponderte voz, 
ida para conocerte, 
alma para obedecerte. 



For of // no more I know, 
Since my father, of whom ne*er 
I knew more, denied to me 
Even a cradle : doubtlefs he 
Then divined my dark career. 
Here I firil drew breath. 
Curcio. 

And here 
Grief and joy contend in me, 
Anguiih and delight agree. 
Sad and fweet thoughts o'er me fteal ; — 

my long-loll fon ! I feel 
Pain and pride in feeing thee. 
Thou, Eufebio, art my fon, — 
This a thoufand proofs have faid ; 
Ah ! that I mull mourn thee dead. 
Ere thy life hath well begun. 
What my foul by brooding on 
Had divined, thy words make clear. 
That thy mother left thee here. 

In the place where I Hand o'er thee ; 
Where I finn'd to her who bore thee. 
Falls the wrath of Heaven fevere. 
Yes, delufion difappeareth. 
All the more this place I fee ; 
But what greater proof can be 
Than that thy breaft alfo beareth 
The fame Crofs that Julia weareth ? 
Not without fome myflery 
Heaven has mark'd you out to be 
The world's wonder thus, ye two. 
Eufebio. 

1 can fpeak no more, adieu. 
Ah ! my father, for on me 
Falls the fatal veil, and death. 
In its fwift flight pafling by me. 
Life to know thee doth deny me. 
Time to live thy fway beneath. 
And to anfwer thee even breath. 



3o8 



LA DEFOCION DE LA CRUZ. 



Ya llega el golpe mas fuerte, 
Ya llega el trance mas cierto. 
Alberto I 

Curcio. 
I Que llore muerto 
A quien aborreci vivo ! 

Eufebio, 
i Ven, Alberto ! 

Curcio, 

j O trance efquivo ! 
i Guerra injufta ! 

Eufebio. 
\ Alberto ! j Alberto ! 
[_Muere. 
Curcio, 
Ya al golpe mas violento 
Rindio el ultimo aliento ; 
Paguen mis blancas canas 
Tanto dolor. 

[Tirafe de los cab elks. 

Sale Bras. 

Bras. 
Ya fon tus quejas vanas ; 
I Cuando pufo inconftante la fortuna 
En tu valor extremos ? 
Curcio. 

En ninguna 
Llego el rigor a tanto. 
Abrafen mis enojos 
Efte monte con llanto, 
Puefto que es fuego el llanto de mis ojos. 
j O trille ellrella ! j o rigurofa fuerte ! 
j O atrevido dolor ! 

Sale OcTAvio. 

OSlamo. 
Hoy, Curcio, advierte 



Now the final Uroke draws nigh : — 
O Alberto ! 

Curcio, 
Strange that I 
Mourn his death whofe life I fought. 

Eufebio, 
Come, Alberto ! 

Curcio, 

Fight hard fought ! 

Eufebio. 
Halle, Alberto ! halle, I die ! [Dies. 

Curcio, 
In that laft convullive groan 
Hath his troubled fpirit flown. 
Let thefe gray hairs for fuch pain 
Pay now the price. 

[He pulls his hair difira£ledl^. 

Enter Bras. 

Bras. 
Thy wailings all are vain : 
Will fickle fate, relenting, ne'er give o'er 
Trying thy courage thus ? 
Curcio, 

I ne'er before 
More keenly felt its ire ; 
The griefs I cannot drown 
With fcalding tears could burn this 

mountain down. 
For even the flood my tears let fall is fire. 
O lucklefs flar ! O deftiny of woe ! 
O bitter pang ! 

Enter Octavio. 

O^avio. 
To-day doth fortune fliow 



THE DEFOTION OF THE CROSS, 



309 



La fortuna en los males de tu eftado, 
Cuantos puede fufrir un defdichado. 
El cielo fabe cuanto hablarte liento. 



Curcio. 
I Que ha lido ? 

O^avio, 
Julia falta del convento. 

Curcio, 
El mifmo penfamiento, di, i pudiera 
Con el difcurfo hallar pena tan fiera ? 
Que es mi defdicha airada, 
Sucedida aun mayor, que imaginada. 
Efte cadaver frio, 

Elle que ves, Odlavio, es hijo mio* 
Mira fi bafta en confulion tan fuerte 
Cualquiera pena deltas a una muerte. 
Dadme paciencia, cielos, 
O quitadme la vida, 
Ahora perfeguida 
De tormentos tan lieros. 



Salen Gil, Tirso, y villanos, 

Gil, 
\ Senor ! 

Curcio, 
I Hay mas dolor \ 
Gil. 

Los bandoleros. 
Que huyeron caftigados, 
En bufca tuya vueiven, animados 
De un demonio de un hombre. 
Que encubre de ellos mifmos roftro y 
nombre. 



In all thine ills, which vainly wait a cure. 
How much one haplefs mortal can 

endure : — 
God knows I grieve to make the tidings 

known. 

Curcio, 
What are they ? 

05iavio, 
Julia from her cell hath flown. 
Curcio, 
Could wildeft frenzy feign 
A more o'erwhelming ftroke or fiercer 

pain ? 
Alas 1 my haplefs fate o'ercall 
Makes each new forrow greater than 

the lall. 
This cold corfe here thou gazeft on, 
Oftavio, is the body of my fon ; 
Think, 'mid the crowd of ill fucceeding 

ill. 
If one alone were not enough to kill. 
Oh ! grant me patience. Heaven, 
Or take this life away, 
Afflidled day by day 
With vifitations from thy fcourging 

hand. 

Enter Gil, Tirso, and peaf ants, 

Gil, 
My lord ! 

Curcio, 

Some newer grief? 

Gil. 

The robber band. 
That but now chaftifed had fled. 
Rallying, come to attack thee, led 
By a man whom hell doth feem to 

inflame, [and name. 

Who hideth even from them his face 



3IO LA DEFOCION DE LA CRUZ. 


Curcio, 


Curcio. 


Ahora que mis penas fueron tales. 


Such forrows rack my breaft. 


Que fon lifonjas los may ores males. 


That now the greateft ills appear a jeft. 


El cuerpo fe retire laftimofo 


Take hence the body of Eufebio, 


De Eufebio, en tanto que un fepulcro 


And place it where in time a tomb 


honrofo 


fhall Ihow 


A fus cenizas da mi defventura. 


How o'er his afhes ftill my tears endure. 


Tirfo. 


Tirfo. 


I Pues como pienfas darle fepultura 


What ! do you think of giving fepulture. 


Hoy en lugar fagrado. 


In holy ground, unto a defperate man. 


Cuando fabes que ha muerto excomul- 


Who died beneath the Church's heavieft 


gado ? 


ban? 


Bras, 


Bras. 


Quien defta fuerte ha muerto. 


For one who died in fuch a defperate cafe. 


Digno fepulcro fea elle defierto. 


The defert feems a fitting burial-place. 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


i O villana venganza ! 


O vengeance of a vulgar breaft ! 


I Tanto poder en ti la ofenfa alcanza. 


Has thy rude anger then no bounds. 


Que pafas defta fuerte 


no reft ? 


Los ultimos umbrales de la muerte ? 


Muft thy coarfe appetite infatiate crave 


\_Fafe llorando. 


For food beyond the threfhold of the 




grave ? \Exit weeping. 


Bras. 


Bras. 


Sea en penas tan graves 


Wild beafts and birds of prey fhould 


Su fepulcro las fieras y las aves. 


limb from limb 




Tear fuch a wretch, and fo thus bury him . 


Otro. 


Another. 


Del monte defpenado 


Let's throw his body o'er the rocks. 


Caiga, por mas rigor, defpedazado. 


that fo 




In fragments it may reach the fands 




below. 


Tirfo. 


r/r>. 


Mejor es darle ahora fepultura 


No, fince the time no other mode allows. 


Entre de aqueftos ramos la efpefura.* 


Let's make his ruftic grave beneath 


[Colo can entre las ram as el cuerpo 


thefe boughs. 


de Eufebio. 


\_They place the body ^/Eusebio 


* ** Mejor es darle agora 

Ruftica fepultura entre eftos ramos." 


as defcribed. 
Now iince the night, wrapp'd in her 


Hartzenbusch's Ed. 


mournful fhroud. 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 311 


Pues ya la noche baja, 


Finds too a grave in yonder murky 


Envuelta en efa lobrega mortaja : 


cloud. 


Aqui en el monte, Gil, con el te queda; 


Let us away : thou on the mountain. 


Porque fola tu voz avifar pueda. 
Si algunas gentes vienen 


Gil, 

Hadft bell remain befide the body flill; 


De las que huyeron. \_Vanfe, 


Shouldft thou fee any of the troop that 
fled. 




Call loud for aid, we'll hear. 




\Exeunt. 


Gil. 


Gil. 


\ Linda flema tienen ! 


That's eafily faid : 


A Eufebio han enterrado 


Eufebio's corfe they bury out of fight. 


Alii, y a mi aqui folo me han dejado. 


And leave but me to watch it through 


Seiior Eufebio, acuerdefe, le digo. 


the night. 


Que un tiempo fui fu amigo. 

I Mas que es efto ? 6 me engaiia mi defeo. 


Senor Eufebio, recolleft, I pray. 
How you and I were friends the other 


O mil perfonas a ella parte veo. 


day. 
But what is this? Unlefs my eyes betray 




me. 
At leaft a thoufand perfons here waylay 
me. 


Sale Alberto. 


Enter Alberto. 


Alberto. 


Alberto. 


Viniendo ahora de Roma, 


In the lilent dark of night. 


Con la muda fufpenfion 
De la noche en efte monte 


On my journey back from Rome, 
I again have loft my way 


Perdido otra vez elloy. 


In this wild and mountain road : 


Aquella es la parte adonde 


'Tis the place that robber chieftain 


La vida Eufebio me dio, 
Y de fus foldados temo. 


Spared my life fome time ago. 
And new peril from his foldiers 


Que en grande peligro eftoy. 

Eufebio, 
i Alberto ! 


Now again my fears forbode. 

Eufebio. 
Oh ! Alberto ! 


Alberto, 


Alberto. 


I Que aliento es elle 


What faint breath 


De una temerofa voz, 


Of a trembling voice here blown 


Que, repitiendo mi nombre. 
En mis oidos fono ? 


Falls upon my ear, my name 
Sadly fighing o'er and o'er ? 



312 



LA DEFOCION DE LA CRUZ. 



Eufebio, 
I Alberto ! 

Alberto, 

Otra vez pronuncia 
Mi nombre/y me parecio 
Que es a efta parte ; yo quiero 
Ir llegando. 

Gil. 

\ Santo Dios ! 
Eufebio es, y ya es mi miedo 
De los miedos^el mayor. 

Eufebio. 
\ Alberto ! 

Alberto. 
Mas cerca fuena. 
I Voz, que difcurres veloz 
El viento, y mi nombre dices, 
Quien eres ? 

Eufebio. 

Eufebio foy ; 
Llega, Alberto, hacia efta parte, 
Adonde enterrado eftoy ; 
Llega, y levanta eftos ramos % 
No temas. 

Alberto. 
No'^temo yo. 
Gil. 
Yosi. 

[Alberto le defcubre. 
Alberto. 
Ya eftasfdefcubierto. 
Dime de parte de Dios, 
I Que me quieres ? 

\^Eufebio. 

De fu parte 



Eufebio. 
Oh! Alberto! 

Alberto. 
Ah ! that voice 
Syllables my name once more ! 
Here it feems to found from : nigher 
Let me liflen. 

Gil. 

Holy God ! 
'Tis Eufebio ! fear like this 
Have I never felt before. 

Eufebio, 
Oh ! Alberto ! 

Alberto. 

Now 'tis nearer : 
Voice that flieft fleetly forth 
On the wind, and call'll my name. 
Say, who art thou ? 

Eufebio. 

I was known 
As Eufebio : oh ! Alberto ! 
Hither come where I am thrown. 
Take away thefe boughs that hide me;* 
Do not fear. 

Alberto. 

No fear I know. 
Gil. 
Not fo /. 

[Alberto difcovers him. 
Alberto. 
Thou'rt now laid bare, — 
Tell me, in the name of God, 
What with me thou willeft. 
Eufebio. 

I 



v1 * In Tirfo de Molina's El Condenado por Dejconfiado^ the body oi "Paulo is alfo hidden under 
boughs, and laid bare in the fame manner, with, however, a very different refult. — See his Come- 
dias Ecogidas.^Ma.dndj iS$o. p. 203. Tr. 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 313 


Mi fe, Alberto, te llamo. 


In his name, by faith made bold. 


Para que, antes de morir. 


Call'd thee, ere my death, to hear 


Me oyefes de confefion. 


My confeffion long untold. 


Rato ha que hubiera muerto. 


I have been a brief while dead. 


Pero libre fe quedo 


And my corfe without control 


Del efpiritu el cadaver ; 


Of the fpirit here has lain; 


Que de la muerte el feroz 


But although death's mighty ftroke 


Goipe le privo de ufo. 


Took its aftive ufe away. 


Pero no le dividio. \Levantafe. 


Still unfever'd was the foul. 


Ven adonde mis pecados 


l^He arifes. 


Confiefe, Alberto, que fon 


Come, Alberto, where my fins 


Mas, que del mar las arenas. 


I to thee may tell, though more 


Y los atomos del fol. 


Than the atoms of the fun 


i Tanto con el cielo puede 


Or the fands upon the fhore ; — 


De la Cruz la devocion ! 


All fo powerful is with Heaven 




The devotion of the Crofs. 


Alberto. 


Jlberto. 


Pues yo cuantas penitencias 


Then on thee the various penance 


Hice hafta ahora, te doy. 


Of my hfetime I bellow. 


Para que en tu culpa firvan 


That at leaft to fome extent 


De alguna fatisfaccion. 


For thy fins they may atone. 


\_Fanfe Eusebio y Alberto. 


[Exeunt Eusebio and Alberto. 


Gil. 


Gil. 


i Por Dios, que va por fu pie ! 


There, by heavens ! away he walks ; 


Y para verlo mejor. 


And to fee him, I fuppofe. 


El fol defcubre fus rayos. 


See the fun fhines out on purpofe. 


A decirlo a todos voy. 


Oh ! I burft to have it told ! 


Sale7i por el otro lado Julia y algunos 


Enter on the other fide Julia and 


Bandoleros. 


fome bandits. 


Julia. 


Julia. 


Ahora, que defcuidados 


Now that in the carelefiiiefs 


La vidoria los dejo 


Of fuccefs they lie here prone. 


Entre los brazos del fueiio. 


Buried in the arms of fleep. 


Nos dan baftante ocafion. 


Let us make the time our own. 


Vno. 


A Bandit. 


Si has de falirlos al pafo. 


If thou wouldft fecure the pafs. 


Por efta parte es mejor ; 


Better 'tis this way to go. 


Que ellos vienen por aqui. 


For in that way they advance. 



314 LA DEFOCION 


DE LA CRUZ. 


Salen Curcio y villano. 


Enter Curcio a7id his followers. 


Cur do. 


Curcio. 


Sin duda que inmortal foy 


Oh ! I furely muft have grown 


En los males que me matan, 


Deathlefs 'mid the deadheft ills. 


Pues no me mata el dolor. 


Since I die not of my woe. 


Gil. 


Gil. 


A todas partes hay gente; 


Folks are round on every fide. 


Sepan todos de mi voz 


Let my voice to all unfold 


El mas admirable cafo. 


The moll wonderful event 


Que jamas el mundo vio. 


That the world has ever known : — 


De donde enterrado eftaba 


From the place that buried lay 


Eufebio, fe levanto. 


Dead Eufebio, he arofe. 


Llamando a un clerigo a voces. 


Calling loudly on a prieft 1 


I Mas para que os cuento yo 


But what need of words to Ihow 


Lo que todos podeis ver ? 


That which you yourfelves can fee ? 


Mirad con la devocion 


Look there yonder, bending low. 


Que ella puefto de rodillas. 


See with what refpedl he kneels. 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


J Mi hijo es ! j Divino Dios ! 


'Tis my fon, divineft God, 


i Que maravillas fon eftas ? 


What a miracle is this ! 


Julia. 


Julia. 


I Quien vio prodigio mayor ? 


What a wonder here is fliown ! 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


Afi como el fanto anciano 


And the faintly elder fcarce 


Hizo de la abfolucion 


O'er his head doth make the form 


La forma, fegunda vez 


Of abfolution, when he falls 


Muerto a fus plantas cayo. 


At his feet a corfe once more 


Sale Alberto. 


Enter Alberto. 


Alberto. 


Alberto, 


Entre fus grandezas tantas. 


'Mid its greateft miracles 


Sepa el mundo la mayor 


That the wondering world may know 


Maravilla de las fuyas, 


Now the ftrangeft oi them all. 


Porque la enfalce mi voz. 


Let my voice its praife extol. 


Defpues de haber muerto Eufebio, 


After this Eufebio died. 


El cielo depofito 


Heaven was pleafed to let his foul 


Su efpiritu en fu cadaver. 


Sti]l within his body flay 


Hafla que fe confefo ; 


Till he could confefs the whole 



THE DEVOTION 


OF THE CROSS. 315 


Que tanto con Dios alcanza 


Of his fins, fuch power v^ith God 


De la Cruz la devocion. 


Hath devotion to the Crofs. 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


kj hijo del alma mia ! 


Ah ! my fon, my much-loved fon. 


No fue defdichado, no. 


Thou wert not unlucky, no. 


Quien en fu tragica muerte 


To obtain fo much of glory 


Tantas glorias merecio. 


By the Ilroke that laid thee low ; 


All Julia conociera 


Would that Julia now could know 


Sus culpas. 


Her tranfgreffions ! 


Julia. 


Julia. 


J Valgame Dios ! 


Help me ! God ! 


I Que es lo que eiloy efcuchando r 


What is this that now I hear ? 


I Que prodigio es eile ? i Yo 


What is this that fhocks me fo ? 


Soy la que a Eufebio pretende. 


lEufebio'sfifter? I 


Y hermana de Eufebio Toy ? 


Am the fame who fought his love ! 


Pues fepa Curcio, mi padre. 


Then let Curcio, let my father. 


Sepa el mundo y todos hoy 


Let the world and all men know 


Mis graves culpas ; yo milma. 


My great guilt ! I will myfelf. 


Afombrada a tanto horror. 


Frighten'd by this horrid blow. 


Dare voces : fepan todos 


Publicly proclaim it : — Now 


Cuantos hoy viven, que yo 


Let all living men be told 


Soy Julia, en numero infame 


I am Julia, 'mid the crowd 


De las malas la peor. 


Of all reprobates the worft ; 


Mas ya que ha fido comun 


But as my offence has been 


Mi pecado, defde hoy 


Public, let my penance fhow 


Lo fera mi penitencia ; 


Publicly that I repent ; 


Pidiendo humilde perdon 


Humbly pardon I implore 


Al mundo del mal ejemplo. 


From the world for bad example, j 


De la mala vida a Dios. 


For an evil life from God. i 


Curcio. 


Curcio. 


\ O afombro de las maldades ! 


Prodigy of wickednefs. 


Con mis propias manos yo 


By my own right hand alone 


Te matare, porque Tea 


Shalt thou die: that life and death 


Tu vida y tu muerte atroz. 


Be with thee atrocious both. 


Julia. 


Julia. 


Valedme vos, Cruz divina ; 


Aid me thou, O Crofs divine ! 


Que yo mi palabra os doy. 


And I plight to thee my word. 


De hacer, volviendo al convento, 


Back unto my cell returning, 


Penetencia de mi error. 


For my error to atone. 



3i6 



LA DEFOCION DE LA CRUZ. 



\_Alquerer herirla CuRCio,y> abraza 
de la Cruz, que eflaba en el fepul- 
cro de Eusebio, y vuela. 



Alberto. 
j Gran milagro ! 

Curcio. 

Y con el fin 
De tan grande admiracion. 
La Devocion de la Cruz 
Felice acaba fu autor. 



\^As Curcio is about ftriking her^Jhe 
embraces the Crofs that ft an ds be- 
fide the grave of Eusebio, which 
rifes into the air with her and dif- 
appears. 

Alberto. 
What a miracle ! 

Curcio. 
And thus. 
With fo wonderful a clofe. 
Happily the author endeth 
The Devotion of the Crofs. 



THE END. 



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TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE. 



A LIST 

OF 

Caltreron'0 Uramas anti Sutos SacramentaUg, 

Translated into English Verse 
BY DENIS FLORENCE MAC-CARTHY, M.R.I.A. 



THE PURGATORY OF SAINT 
PATRICK. 

"With the 'Purgatory of St. Pat- 
rick' especial pains seem to have been 
taken". 

" Considerable license has been taken 
with the prayer of St. Patrick ; but its 
spirit is "well preserved, and the trans- 
lator's poetry must be admired". 

"If Calderon can ever be made 
popular here, it must be in the manner 
generally adopted by Mr. Mac-Carthy 
in the specimens, six in number, which 
are here translated, preserving, namely, 
the metrical form, which is one of the 
characteristics of the old Spanish 
drama- This medium, through which 
it partakes of the lyrical character, is 
no accident of style, but an essential 
property of that remarkable creation 
of a poetic age — remarkable, because 
while the drama so adorned was en- 
tirely the offspring of popular impulse, 
in opposition to many rigorous attempts 
in favour of classical methods, it was 
at the same time raised above the tone 
of common expression by the rhyth- 
mical mode which it assumed, in a 
manner decisive of its ideal tendency. 
It thus displays a combination rare in 
this kind of poetry: the spirit of an 
untutored wiU, embodied in a form the 
romantic expression of which might 
seem only congenial to choice and 
delicate fancies 

" In conclusion, what has now been 
said of Calderon, and of the stage 



which he adorned, as well as of the 
praise justly due to parts of Mr. Mac- 
Carthy's version, will at least serve to 
commend these volumes to curious 
lovers of poetry". 

From an elaborate article in " The Athe- 
nceum'\ by the late eminent Spanish 
scholar, Mr. J. R. Chorley, on the 
first two volumes of Mr. Mac- Carthy\ 
translations from Calderon. 



THE CONSTANT PRINCE. 
A Drama. 

" In his dramas of a serious and de- 
vout character, in virtue of their dig- 
nified pathos, tragic sublimity, and re- 
ligious fervour, Calderon's best title to 
praise will be found. In such, above 
all in his Autos, he reached a height 
beyond any of his predecessors, whose 
productions, on religious themes espe- 
cially, striking as many of them are^ 
with situations and motives of the 
deepest effect, are not sustained at the 
same impressive elevation, nor disposed 
with that consummate judgment which 
leaves nothing unperf ect or superfluous 
in the dramas of Calderon. ' The Con- 
stant Prince' and 'The Physician of 
his own Honour', which Mr. Mac-Car- 
thy has translated, are noble instances 
representing two extremes of a large 
class of dramas". 

From the same article in " The Athe- 
noeum", by J. R. Chorley. 



List of Calderon^s 



THE PHYSICIAN OF HIS OWN 
HONOUR 

" ' The Physician of his own Honour 
is a domestic tragedy, and miist be one 
of the most fearful to witness ever 
brought upon the stage. The highest 
excess of dramatic powers, terror and 
gloom has certainly been reached in 
this drama". 

From an eloquent article in " The Dub- 
lin University Magazine"' on " D* F. 
Mac- Carthy's Calderon". 



THE SECEET IN WORDS. 
A Drama. 

"The ingenious verbal artifice of 
'The Secret in Words', although a 
mere trifle if compared to the marvel- 
lous intricacy of a similar cipher in 
Tirso's ' Amar por Arte Mayor', from 
which Calderon's play was taken — loses 
sadly in a translation ; yet the piece, 
even with this disadvantage, cannot 
fail to please". 

J. R. Chorley in " The Athenceum''\ 



THE SCAEF AND THE FLOWER. 

A Drama, 

"The 'Scarf and the Flower', nice 
and courtly though it be, the subject 
spun out and entangled with infinite 
skill, is too thin by itself for an interest 
of three acts long ; and no translation, 
perhaps, could preserve the grace of 
manner and glittering flow of dia- 
logue which conceal this defect in the 
original". 

J. R. Chorley in " The Athen(EunC\ 



LOVE AFTER DEATH. 

A Drama. 

" ' Love after Death' is a drama full 
of excitement and beauty, of passion 
and power, of scenes whose enthusi- 
astic affection, self-devotion, and un- 
dying love are drawn with more intense 
colouring than we find in any other of 
Calderon's works". 
From an article in " The Dublin Uiiiver- 

sity Magazine!'' on D. F. Mac- Car- 

thy^s Calderon. 



rising of the Moriscoes in the Alpu- 
jarras (1568-1570), one of whom is its 
hero. It is for many reasons worthy 
of note; amongst others, as showing 
how far Calderon could rise above na- 
tional prejudices, and expend all the 
treasures of his genius in glorifying 
the heroic devotedness of a noble foe". 
Archbishop Trench. 



LOVE THE GREATEST EN- 
CHANTMENT. 

A Drama. 

" This fact connects the piece with 
the first and most pleasing in the 
volume, 'Love the greatest Enchant- 
ment', in which the same m>i;h [that 
of Circe and Ulysses] is exliibited in a 
more hf e-like form, though not without 
some touches of allegory. Here we 
have a classical plot which is adapted 
to the taste of Spain in the seventeenth 
century by a plentiful admixture of 
episodes of love and gallantry. The 
adventure is opened with nearly the 
same circumstances as in the tenth 
Odyssey: but from the moment that 
Ulysses, with the help of a divine taHs- 
man, has frustrated all the speUs 
(beauty excepted) of the enchantress, 
the action is adapted to the manners of 
a more refined and chivalrous circle". 
''The Saturday Review" in its review 

of ''Mac-Carthy's Three Plays oj 

Calderon". 



"Another tragedy, 'Love after 
Death', is connected with the hopeless 



THE DEVOTION OF THE CROSS. 

A Drama. 

" The last drama to which Mr. Mac- 
Carthy introduces us is the famous 
' Devotion of the Cross'. We cannot 
deny the praise of great power to this 
strange and repulsive work, in which 
Calderon draws us onward by a deep 
and terrible dramatic interest, while 
doing cruel violence to our moral 
nature. . . . Our readers may be glad 
to compare the translations which 
Archbishop Trench and Mr. Mac-Car- 
thy have given us of a celebrated ad- 
dress to the Cross contained in this 
drama. 'Tree whereon the pitying 
skies", etc. Mr. Mac-Carthy doesnot 
appear to us to suffer from comparison 
on this occasion with a true poet, who 
is also a skilful translator. Indeed h6 



Dramas and Autos Sacramenfales. 



has faced the difficulties and given the 
sense of the original with more decision 
than Archbishop Trench". 
" The Guardian", in its review of the 
same volume. 



THE SOECERIES OF SIN. 

An Auto. 

" The central piece, the ' Sorceries of 
Sin', is an 'Auto Sacramental', or 
Morahty, of which the actors represent 
Man, Sin, Voluptuousness, etc.. Under- 
standing, and the Eive Senses. The 
Senses are corrupted by the influence 
of Sin, and figuratively changed into 
wild beasts. Man, accompanied by 
Understanding and Penance, demands 
their hberation and encounters no re- 
sistance ; but his free-will is afterwards 
seduced by the Evil Power, and his 
allies reclaim him with difficulty. Yet 
the plan of the apologue is embeUished 
with many ingenious conceits and arti- 
fices, and conformed in the leading cir- 
cumstances with an Homeric myth — 
the names of Ulysses and Circe being 
frequently substituted for those of the 
Man and Sin". 
•' The Saturday Review'^ on ^'■Mac- 

Carthy's Three Plays oj Calderon". 



BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST. 

An Auto. 

" The first auto translated is " Bel- 
shazzar's Feast', a fortunate selection, 
for it is probably unsurpassed in dra- 
matic effect and poetic description, and 
withal is much less encumbered with 
theology than most others". 
From an article in *' The New York 
Nation'\ by a distinguished professor 
of Cornell University, on " Mac- Car- 
Carthy's Translations of QalderorC\ 



THE DIVINE PHILOTHEA. 

An Auto. 

"'The Divine Philothea', probably 
the last work of the kind written by 
Calderon, and as such worthy of atten- 



tion, inasmuch as it is the composition 
of an old man of eighty-one, is con- 
ceived with much boldness and exe- 
cuted with marvellous skill. No 
fewer than twenty personages are re- 
presented on the stage, and these have 
their several parts allotted to them with 
great discrimination, ingenuity, and 
judgment. The Senses, the Cardinal 
Virtues ; Paganism and Judaism ; He- 
resy and Atheism ; the Prince of Light 
and the Power of Darkness, figure 
amongst the characters". 
''The Bookseller", June 29, 1867, on 
Mac- Carthy's "Mysteries of Corpus 
Christi (^Autos Sacramentales'), from 
the Spanish of Calderon". 



THE TWO LOVERS OF HEAVEN. 
A Drama. 

" Of these 'The Wonder-working Ma- 
gician' is most celebrated ; but others, 
as 'The Joseph of Women', 'The 
Two Lovers of Heaven', quite deserve 
to be placed on a level if not higher 
than it. A tender pathetic grace is 
shed over this last, which gives it a 
peculiar charm". 

Archbishop Trench. 



Calderon's Autos Sacramentales, or 
Mysteries of Corpus Christi. Duffy : 
DubUn and London, 1867. 

From " The Irish Ecclesiastical Re- 
cord^'. 

" In conclusion, we heartily commend 
to our readers this most interesting 
and valuable specimen of Spanish 
thought and devotion, wrought, as it is, 
into such pure and beautiful Eng- 
lish When we remember the 

great literary advantages which Spain 
once possessed in the intellect and faith 
of her literary giants, we may well 
rejoice in the appearance among us of 
one of the greatest of that noble race 
in the person of Calderon, especially 
when introduced to us by a poet whose 
claim upon our consideration has been 
so emphatically made good by his own 
original productions as Denis Florence 
Mac-Carthy". 



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From Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature. 

" It is, I think, one of the boldest attempts ever made in 
English verse. It is, too, as it seems to me, remarkably 
successful . . . 

" Nothing, I think, in the English language -will give us so 
true an impression of what is most characteristic of the 
Spanish drama : perhaps I ought to say. of wliat is most 
characteristic of Spanish poetry generally". — tom. iii. pp. 
461,462. 

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